This essay surveys the body of research that asks how the efficiency of corporate investment is influenced by problems … that the marginal return to investment in firm i is the same as the marginal return to investment in firm j? Second, do … capital budgeting process get within-firm allocations right, so that the marginal return to investment in firm i's division A …

, potentially spurring productive investment. Low interest rates, however, also induce entrepreneurs to lever up so as to increase … their incentives thereby lowering productivity and discouraging investment. If leverage is unregulated (for example, due to … payouts by stimulating investment in response to adverse shocks only up to a level below the first-best. The optimal monetary …

We quantify the impact of barriers to international investment, using a novel multi-country dynamic general equilibrium … asset positions. We estimate this gravity equation using recently developed foreign investment data that have been restated … to account for offshore investment and financing vehicles. We show that a parsimonious implementation of the model with …

This paper proposes a novel channel, i.e., within-firm intangible-tangible investment composition, through which … tangibles and the unit-cost differential, which triggers within-firm investment reallocation. It turns out that allocative … domestic investment, the larger the financial inflows, the more likely the productivity eventually exceeds its initial level …

capital. We show that the competitive equilibrium is constrained inefficient, leading to too little risky investment. We also …