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 explores the impact of structural policies on saving, investment, and current accounts in OECD and non … well as for a panel/cross-section of 117 OECD and non-OECD countries that relate saving, investment and current accounts to … saving, investment and current accounts through their impact on macroeconomic conditions such as productivity growth or …

and related wealth effects than on investment. The existence of wealth effects on consumption is little contested, but … work available on investment, partly reflecting poor results for Tobin?s Q, the user cost of capital and the financial … accelerator. Panel investment functions for up to 23 OECD countries are estimated. Significant asset price effects from the …

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 … domestic saving appears to be a major constraint to higher investment rates in Brazil. Due to high levels of current …

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 …