The phrase "firm capital" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used as a business term, meaning a business's assets, such as cash, property and investments, that are used to support its operations. For example: "The company has been steadily building its firm capital and is well-positioned for future growth."
The paper considers what happens when a local legislator attains seniority and improves his or her ability to deliver earmark spending, and concludes:Seniority shocks result in economically and statistically significant declines in firm capital expenditures.
Those partners would no longer draw a share of the profits and would lose any investment in the firm, capital that has already been wiped out, the partners said.
As deals dry up, Mr. Mallawany and Mr. Heikal are scrambling to sell a large piece of the business to a smaller rival in the gas-rich state of Qatar, which would give the firm capital to survive the current turbulence.
The criteria considered when selecting the area of the study were firm's economic status (income): which are high, medium and low income; location and size of the firm (capital and the number of workers).
The government does not only set up rules, watch over their respect and collect taxes and fund but can also institute administrative body to do research or participate to firm capital.
While representatives from the bank declined to comment on market rumors and speculation, National City told Forbes.com that it has a firm capital base and is solid despite the turmoil in the financial market.
These are big numbers, but research by Gregory Kats, president of clean energy consultant and venture capital firm Capital-E, found a 3.3% increase in occupant productivity after energy efficiency improvements that also boost indoor air quality; 5.5% from efficiency that improves temperature control; and 3.2% from the installation of high-performance lighting systems.
In the second quarter firms' capital spending plummeted by an annualised 13.6%, its biggest drop since the 1982 recession.
Maßbaum et al. (2012) use the German interest ceiling rule to theoretically study the impact on firms' capital structure choices.
Early stage investors thus benefited from other firms' capital in later rounds.
In other words, as firms' capital structure and the mechanism used to deal with insolvency are (ex-ante) jointly chosen by firms, we face a simultaneity bias.
