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Original Articles

Financial distress and cycle-sensitive corporate investments

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Pages 181-193 | Received 10 Nov 2013, Accepted 19 Nov 2014, Published online: 30 Jan 2015

Figures & data

Figure 1. Distress episodes and real GDP growth.Notes: A firm was defined as distressed if it breached the minimum capital requirements set by law. The obligatory equity level has been EUR 2.4 thousand for private limited companies and EUR 24 thousand for public limited companies since 1999; in 1995–1998, the obligatory equity levels were EUR 0.64 thousand for private limited companies and EUR 6.4 thousand for public limited companies. Two shadowed areas denote the crises of 1999 and 2008–2009. The source for real GDP growth is Statistics Estonia (Citation2013).

Figure 1. Distress episodes and real GDP growth.Notes: A firm was defined as distressed if it breached the minimum capital requirements set by law. The obligatory equity level has been EUR 2.4 thousand for private limited companies and EUR 24 thousand for public limited companies since 1999; in 1995–1998, the obligatory equity levels were EUR 0.64 thousand for private limited companies and EUR 6.4 thousand for public limited companies. Two shadowed areas denote the crises of 1999 and 2008–2009. The source for real GDP growth is Statistics Estonia (Citation2013).

Table 1. Summary statistics by sector.

Figure 2. Odds ratios at different levels of investment intensity with 95% confidence intervals.

Figure 2. Odds ratios at different levels of investment intensity with 95% confidence intervals.

Figure 3. Odds ratios at different levels of investment intensity with 95% confidence intervals by industries.

Figure 3. Odds ratios at different levels of investment intensity with 95% confidence intervals by industries.

Table 2. Working capital investment intensity impact on distress.

Table 3. Tangible investment intensity impact on distress.