This paper examines the behavior of business fixed investment in the United States in the 1980s. A background … discussion of the long-term behavior of the components of business fixed investment is provided, setting the context for the … empirical analysis. A standard neoclassical model of business fixed investment is specified and estimated, with output and the …

closer integration of world capital markets. By reducing constraints on international capital flows, this movement makes the …

International standards for measuring foreign direct investment (FDI) have become important in today’s global economy … of investment in a country. This joint IMF/OECD report assesses progress toward standardization in the compilation of FDI … update of the joint IMF/OECD Survey of Implementation of Methodological Standards for Direct Investment (SIMSDI), which …

This paper summarizes the theory and empirical evidence on the determinants of foreign direct investment. These … explanations of foreign direct investment receive some empirical support, there is not sufficient favorable evidence on any one of …

with an access to the world capital market. The paper examines the efficiency of quantity restrictions on capital exports …

This paper analyzes reasons for the high post-war correlations of saving and investment, both across countries and over …

results from the requirement that non-traded inputs are used in the investment process. In the short-run, though, the effects … changes in the world interest rate …