This paper finds that coherent regulatory policies can boost investment in network industries of OECD economies. Rate … changed investment in network industries. According to the theoretical literature, regulatory uncertainty exposes both types …-of-return regulation because investment decisions (what can be included in the rate base) are usually evaluated in a discretionary manner …

This paper analyses how different tax policies can affect investment and productivity. To address this question the … differently by taxation. Investment is shown to respond negatively to an increase in the corporate tax rate and a decrease in …

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 … from a variety of econometric approaches. Time-series results reveal a positive impact of infrastructure investment on …

product market, concerning in particular entry barriers, are negatively related to investment. The implications of our … analysis are clear: regulatory reforms, especially those that liberalise entry, are very likely to spur investment …

efficiency with which it seems to be able to channel funds to new productive investment projects, particularly in hi … particularly their enforcement and transparency, support innovation and investment in new enterprises. In addition, using dynamic … panel regression techniques, the study finds significant relationships between investment and financial development, as …

on capital deepening and technical progress by examining the impact of regulations on investment (domestic and foreign …-competitive reforms tend to increase both investment and multifactor productivity and, through both these channels, they can lead to …

drivers of prosperity – investment, skills and ideas – to New Zealand. The reforms of the 1980s and 1990s laid much of the … paper, namely international trade, the business climate for domestic and foreign investment, public sector efficiency …

In several OECD countries, investment rates in the business sector grew strongly in the second half of the 1990s. In … some cases, the strength of private investment relative to output growth had raised concerns about the risk of capital … overhang and the prospect of a prolonged period of slow capital formation in order to bring investment levels back to more …