Using data from the United Nations Comparison Project and the Penn World Table, we find that machinery and equipment investment has a strong association with growth: over l9&)?l95 each percent of GDP invested in equipment is associated with an increase in GDP growth of 1/3 a percentage point per...

Recent research on business investment decisions suggests that real investment in plant and equipment is quite sensitive to changes in the user cost of capital, pointing to the possibility that long-run changes in tax policy may have a significant impact on an economy's capital stock. Indeed,...

This paper examines capital adjustment patterns using two large and largely novel data sets from the manufacturing sectors of Colombia and Mexico. The findings show that investment patterns in these countries resemble those reported for the United States to a surprising extent. Capital...

Chapter 1: How To Get Richer -- Chapter 2 Deciding What To Invest In -- Chapter 3: Understanding Risk -- Chapter 4: How Much to Hold In Fixed Income Investments -- Chapter 5: When to Exchange Equity for Fixed Income Investments -- Chapter 6: Calculating Spending -- Chapter 7: Insurance Mediates...

L'immobilier d'entreprise désigne un métier : celui des professionnels détenant des biens immobiliers afin de les louer et en tirer un revenu. Ce secteur de l'économie offre également aux particuliers de nombreuses opportunités : acquisition de parts ou actions de SCPI, OPCI ou SIIC ou...

General purpose technologies (GPTs) such as AI enable and require significant complementary investments, including business process redesign, co-invention of new products and business models, and investments in human capital. These complementary investments are often intangible and poorly...

Der auf der Geschäftslage und den Geschäftserwartungen der Leasinggesellschaften basierende Investitionsindikator, den das ifo Institut und der Bundesverband Deutscher Leasing-Unternehmen gemeinsam ermitteln, signalisiert für das Jahr 2019 einen Anstieg der Ausrüstungsinvestitionen von...

General purpose technologies (GPTs) such as AI enable and require significant complementary investments, including co-invention of new processes, products, business models and human capital. These complementary investments are often intangible and poorly measured in the national accounts, even...

General purpose technologies (GPTs) such as AI enable and require significant complementary investments, including co-invention of new processes, products, business models and human capital. These complementary investments are often intangible and poorly measured in the national accounts, even...