Investment across the euro area remains below its pre-crisis level. Its performance has been weaker than in most …, corporate leverage, and uncertainty. There is a considerable cross country heterogeneity in terms of both investment dymanics … and its determinants. Based on the findings of this paper, investment is expected to pick up as the recovery strengthens …

This paper on the Republic of Poland was prepared by a staff team of the International Monetary Fund as background … views of the government of the Republic of Poland or the Executive Board of the IMF. …

Countries in Central, Eastern, and Southeastern Europe (CESEE) experienced a credit boom-bust cycle in the last decade …. This paper analyzes the roles of demand and supply factors in explaining this credit cycle. Our analysis first focuses on a … large sample of bank-level data on credit growth for the entire CESEE region. We complement this analysis by five case …

This paper examines the impact of interest rates and inflation on bank loans and investment within a framework that … treating the lending and deposit rates of interest as distinct parameters in investment equations. The spread between the two …

The prolonged investment decline in post-Asian crisis emerging Asia, in contrast to the swift recovery of economic … growth, has remained a puzzle. This paper shows that the post-crisis investment recession has been mainly concentrated in the …

Policy-makers have attributed the scale of the credit crisis and its profound impact on money markets (as well as …

What determines the ability of governments from developing countries to access international credit markets? We examine … markets. We are unable to detect strong punishment of defaulting countries by credit markets. …