This paper studies the impact of remittances on investment. Workers’ remittances to developing countries have grown to … investment in the home countries of the migrants. The importance of financial and institutional framework in the receiving … institutional framework and well developed credit market increase investment. However, it is also found that the marginal importance …

studies in the evaluation of firms’ investment performance has shown significant differences in the valuation of firms …’ investment performance, the existing empirical evidence suggest that institutional owners have a positive influence on firms …’ investment performance. Studies that looks at the role of institutional owners from the perspective of dividend policy has shown …

This paper examines how ownership concentration affects investment performance, and in particular how deviations from …

In a frictionless milieu retentions should have no impact on investment behavior. However, empirical studies typically … find that retentions are an important determinant of investment. Managerial discretion and financial constraints are two … of retentions as a determinant of investment. Measures of Tobin’s Q, marginal q and sales accelerator are used to control …

investments decided by the management. Empirical studies of investment and performance based on marginal q have demonstrated the … market bubble. We find an anomaly in form of a new industry specific effect that, in addition to investment, explains changes …

investments, externalities and key actors in national innovation systems and productivity. This study explores whether foreign … knowledge technological knowledge spillover does not manifest itself in superior innovation output or productivity performance … that is subsequently exploited in affiliates abroad. Correspondingly, the innovation and productivity performance in …

This paper serves as another complementary link in a chain of a rather limited number of investigations in the R&D-innovation-productivity … relationship within service industries. Innovation has been found to be a major contributor to productivity growth in manufacturing … evidence that the reported weak rate of productivity growth in knowledge intensive services can be explained by a low …

labour productivity. Using five waves of the Community Innovation Survey in Sweden, we have traced the innovative behaviour … choose and afford to have a complex innovation strategy are better off in terms of their future productivity in compare with …. Moreover, not all types of complex innovation strategies affect the future productivity significantly; rather, there are only …

performance for 55 to 78 countries, using three measures of economic performance – economic output (GDP per capita), productivity … (total factor productivity) and innovative performance (patents). The results confirm the hypothesis, indicating that our …