Investment in network infrastructure can boost long-term economic growth in OECD countries. Moreover, infrastructure … investment can have a positive effect on growth that goes beyond the effect of the capital stock because of economies of scale … between infrastructure and economic growth. Time-series results reveal a positive impact of infrastructure investment on …

. Further, while during earlier parts of our sample both a slowdown in consumption and investment growth contribute to a … reduction of GDP growth, during later parts, only the investment reaction contributes to the GDP slowdown. A variance … to later parts of the sample, while the corresponding decomposition for investment growth reveals an increase in the role …

In this paper we offer an analysis of the effects of uncertainty about future tax policy on irreversible investment …. The main message of the paper is that investment is not much affected by the degreee of tax policy uncertainty. This is … that reducing tax policy uncertainty is probably no magic bullet to increase private investment spending …

The macroeconomic effects on growth, investment and private sector employment of different ways of rolling back the … cutting public spending on private goods induce an investment boom. Making the tax system less progressive by cutting tax … credits and the income tax rate induces an investment boom as well. The effects of endogenous growth, adjustment costs for …

When investment is irreversible, theory suggests that firms will be “reluctant to invest.” This reluctance creates a … wedge between the discount rate guiding investment decisions and the standard Jorgensonian user cost (adjusted for risk). We …

Is real investment fully determined by fundamentals or is it sometimes affected by stock market misvaluation? We … introduce three new tests that: measure the reaction of investment to sales shocks for firms that may be overvalued; use Fama … misvaluation into standard investment equations to estimate the quantitative effect of misvaluation on investment. Overall, the …

This paper analyses the impact of exchange rate uncertainty upon the pattern of investment in different exchange rate … exchange rate regimes indicates that currency volatility exerts only a small influence upon the level of investment spending …

We analyse the effects of investment decisions and firms’ internal organisation on the efficiency and stability of …

demonstrates the neutrality properties of the reform with respect to investment, firm financial decisions and organizational choice …. Tax rates are chosen to prevent income shifting from labor to capital income. The reform decisively strengthens investment …