Business support policies designed to raise productivity and employment are common worldwide, but rigorous micro … positive program treatment effect on employment, investment and net entry but not on TFP. OLS underestimates program effects …,300 suggesting that in some respects investment subsidies can be cost effective. …

fixed investment that became excessive and proved to be unsustainable, while the productivity acceleration helps to account … productivity growth linked to the delayed effects of previously invented 'general purpose technologies' stimulated an increase in …-01 collapse of investment and the stock market proves that good public policy matters, going beyond the narrowly defined …

privatization, competition and foreign investment. We also test hypotheses positing that only firms near the efficiency frontier …

We develop a model that examines the capital structure and investment decisions of regulated firms in a setting that …

Credit constraints are more frequent among growth companies with large investment opportunities. For the same reason … investment opportunities to a larger extent. (ii) Taxes which are neutral in a neoclassical world, still restrict expansion … investment of constrained firms by reducing free cash-flow and thereby discourage innovation. (iii) A revenue neutral increase in …