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To invest or not to invest? the factors that solve the question - across All Sectors And Agriculture Sector
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We examine macroeconomic and microeconomic factors that influence investment decisions
taken by Portuguese SMEs. We find from a macroeconomic perspective, the EPU index,
interest rate and inflation to be statistically significant and to drive down the investment rate,
whereas the GDP growth rate has a positive impact. From a microeconomic perspective, we
find lagged investment, EBITDA margin, lagged retention ratio, long-term debt, tangible
collateralizable assets and firm size to be statistically significant factors positively influencing
investment, whereas lagged effective tax rate and financing costs have a negative effect. In
addition, motivated by the statistical relevance of collateralizable assets in explaining
investments, we explore how bank financing can evolve within the context of a digital economy.
Finally, a sectorial analysis on the agriculture sector s performed. We find that different factors
affect investment in this sectors.
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Investment decisions Smes Bank financing Macroeconomic factors Microeconomic factors Intangibles financing Intangibles as collateral Portugal Agriculture