The downturn in fixed investment among advanced economies from the onset of the global crisis was unusually severe …, widespread and long-lasting relative to comparable episodes in the past. As a result, investment gaps are large in many countries … points of GDP or more in several countries. A significant proportion of this investment shortfall is attributable to soft …

This paper investigates the role played by deregulation on firms’ investment decisions in infrastructure sectors. The … entry, public ownership, vertical unbundling and the existence of an independent regulator with firm level investment … behaviour. We find that the impact of regulation on investment is both sector and firm specific. A reduction in the degree of …

of domestic savings, major curbs on investment include the high level of real interest rates, whose reasons are not easy …Low investment rates are limiting Brazil’s future potential growth rate. This paper analyses a number of potential … reasons for these low investment rates and discusses policy options to achieve faster capital accumulation. A shortage of …

Investment in network infrastructure – the energy, water, transport and telecommunication networks – which performs a … better. While the paper shows that investment in the network industries has had a positive effect over and above the addition … to the capital stock, there is evidence that investment in the past has sometimes been misallocated. This paper …

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 …