Empirical evidence proves that agricultural R&D expenditure and researchers attract high returns though the investments have long-gestation periods. Nonetheless, sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) invests meanly in agricultural R&D and researchers. This study explores the impacts of agricultural R&D...

This paper examines whether foreign institutional investors’ investment horizon affects investment efficiency across 17 emerging markets. Using a sample of 10,360 firms, we find that long-term foreign institutional investors are associated with an enhancement in investment efficiency,...

This article examines the effect of access obligation on mobile network investment. Access obligation is a form of regulated network access in wholesale markets that commits MNOs to grant non-discriminatory access to MVNOs. While it is often claimed that such regulation might lower investment...

This paper explores the role of markets in facilitating the transition to renewable energy sources. In particular, it investigates the effectiveness of a gross pool wholesale market design, where all electricity is traded in the spot market, in providing price signals that encourage investments...

Enterprises’ investment response to China’s carbon regulation policy is essential to the country’s high-quality development. Using a difference-in-differences model, we investigate the differential impacts of China’s Low-carbon Pilot (LP) program on both state-owned enterprises (SOEs)...

Oligopolistic competition in the banking sector and risk in the real economy are important characteristics of many economies. We build a model of monetary policy transmission that incorporates these characteristics which allows us to analyze the long-run consequences of variations in the degree...

The rise of Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology has brought about the possibility of amplifying and intensifying rent-seeking behavior within firms. This raises the question of whether firms will allocate their resources towards investing in such technology. This paper examines the...

This paper explores the optimal investment and reinsurance problem with the objective of maximizing the probability of reaching a bequest goal, while accounting for constraints and ambiguous correlations. Specifically, the study considers two types of constraints: no short-selling constraints...

RésuméL’objectif de cet article est d’évalué l’effet des investissements en infrastructures publiques de base sur la croissance économique au Cameroun. Il s’agit de comparer les élasticités des différents types d’infrastructures sur la croissance et les investissements privés....

Attraction of private investments to green energy resources projects is one of the most important controversial issues among scholars. In this paper, the association between green fiscal policy and green monetary policy on green energy investment is analyzed for the case of India from 1990 to...