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 …

Does the concept of General Purpose Technologies help explain periods of faster and slower productivity advance in …, Britain, France, Germany and Japan and proceeds to evaluate the hypothesis of a productivity bonus as postulated by many … there was no generalized productivity boost from electrical power diffusion as postulated by many existing GPT models. The …

While the US experienced two successive labor productivity surges in 1995 and 2000, Germany’s productivity declined … dramatically during the same period. We examine the sources of Germany’s productivity demise using the ifo industry growth … accounting database that provides detailed industry-level investment information. While much attention has focused on the …

types in 52 different industries. The industry sources of productivity and output growth are crucial to the understanding of …

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 …