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 …

, and establishes empirically that geographical variations in the natural return to agricultural investment have had a … that pre-industrial agro-climatic characteristics that were conducive to higher return to agricultural investment …

between export and FDI. The model combines the proximity-concentration trade-off framework with the real option methodology …

Germany’s export market share increased since 2000, while most industrial countries experienced declines. This study …-shoring). An export model is estimated covering the period 1993–2005. The dominant factor explaining the increase in market share … are trade relationships with fast growing countries. Regionalized production in the export sector also played a part …

exogenous to firms’ export performance. We find that innovation attributable to this variation leads to an increase of roughly 7 … percentage points in the export share of German manufacturing firms. The evidence is robust to several alternative specifications …

, those with intermediate productivity will export, and those with higher productivity will choose fragmentation. Among the …