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. …

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. …

senescence. Therefore the impact of unions on productivity, financial performance and investment is extremely important. This … the productivity performance of the workplace or firm. The evidence indicates that, in the USA, workplaces with both high …If the presence of a union in a workplace or firm raises the pay level, unless productivity rises correspondingly …

question, the evidence suggests uncertainty is damaging for short-run investment and hiring, but there is some evidence it may …

This paper tests for the importance of cash flow on investment in fixed capital and R&D using firm-level panel data in … investment or R&D. In identical specifications for British firms, cash flow is informative about investment, although not about … the level of R&D spending conditional on the R&D participation decision. In the UK, we also find that investment is less …

employment, investment and productivity, and a moderate loss in GDP. This temporary impact of a second moment shock is different …

This paper uses a new data-set to examine how internal capital markets and foreign ownership affect investment. Our … data allow us to compare investment behaviour of listed subsidiaries with stand-alone firms while controlling for … investment opportunities of parent and subsidiary firms. We evaluate how the size of ownership and the geographical proximity of …

investment. Uncertainty increases real option values making firms more cautious when investing or disinvesting. This is confirmed … both numerically for a model with a rich mix of adjustment costs, time-varying uncertainty, and aggregation over investment … investment response to demand shocks. This implies the responsiveness of firms to any given policy stimulus may be much lower in …

markets explain both productivity differences and firm density. Estimating structural model parameters is simple and relies on … model, we find that labor markets which provide cost advantages explain substantial differences in firm productivity …