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 …

with different levels of country risk. We construct a model of firms' FDI decisions, broadly in Dunning's "eclectic theory …

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 …

Now close to 50 percent of GDP, this paper assesses the appropriateness of China’s current investment levels. It … stand out, partly due to a surge in investment over the last decade. Moreover, its investment is significantly higher than …. However, because its investment is predominantly financed by domestic savings, a crisis appears unlikely when assessed against …

investment. The associated revenue losses are large, and benefits in terms of new investment have been limited, raising doubts … across financing source; and that METRs on investment are larger than the overall distortion on capital, with a substantial …

, owing to limited time series of the available data. This paper presents an analysis of investment in Poland based on an … underexplored sectoral data set. The determinants of investment are found to include lagged investment, lead production, relative … unit labor costs, EU demand, corporate profitability, and greenfield FDI (foreign direct investment) inflows. Dynamic in …

Despite intense calls for safeguarding public investment in Europe, public investment expenditure, when measured in … temporary and permanent public investment shocks generate larger fiscal multipliers than exogenous increases in public … consumption and a permanent fall in public investment, keeping the overall level of public spending constant. The key message of …