This paper uses micro-data from the World Bank Investment Climate Surveys 2002-2006 to investigate how foreign …

We use Japanese microdata to examine how financial market frictions affect foreign direct investment (FDI). The …

significant impact. Finally, either regulatory instrument may induce the highest technology investment levels. …

We demonstrate that the choice of the transfer price and its effect on intra-firm trade and investment depends on the …

-period world with identical homothetic preferences and without investment, the global interest rate falls and the Green Paradox … weakens. With investment or a relatively more impatient oil-importing region, the Green Paradox may be strengthened because …

There is a lack of clear evidence of the ways in which dividend taxation affects dividend distributions and investment …

The paper studies the interaction between cyclical uncertainty and investment in a stochastic real option framework … of the link between cyclical uncertainty and investment is quantified using simulations of the model. The chief …

to invest compared to autarky. The investment levels remain inefficient though. With generation facilities over-investment … occurs sometimes, while systematic under-investment occurs for transportation facilities. Free-riding reduces the incentives … to invest in these public-good components, while business-stealing tends to reduce the capacity for financing new …

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 …