ABSTRACT
This paper assesses empirically the determinants of private investment in Brazil between 2007 and 2017, from a post-Keynesian approach, seeking to test whether the private investment of non-financial companies was affected by financialization and financial fragility processes in Minsky’s fashion. For this purpose, using the data of publicly traded non-financial companies in the period analyzed, segmented into different sector groups, the investment function is tested by two estimation methods: the Generalized Method of Moments (GMM), which carries out an aggregate analysis and the temporal analysis method by the Autoregressive Distributed Lag Model (ARDL), which carries out individual analyzes of each group. Individual results confirm the hypothesis of a negative relationship between financialization and productive investment; regarding financial leverage, the models incorporating all companies with and without Petrobras presented a behavior in which higher levels of financial fragility negatively affect investment.
KEYWORDS:
Investment; financialization; post-Keynesian theory