. While some countries need to raise consumption, several need to raise investment or reorient it from tradable to nontradable … sectors. These changes in investment could be facilitated by financial reforms that enhance domestically oriented firmsâ … uncertainty, and by improvements in infrastructure that raise the returns to private investment. …

This paper shows that aggregate investment expenditure shares on tradable and nontradable goods are very similar across … nontradable goods in investment can be modeled using the Cobb-Douglas aggregator. …

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 …

financial health—and investment in Israel, using dynamic panel data techniques. The results suggest that weak balance sheets … may well have contributed to the investment decline of recent years. The impact of financial variables on investment is … corporate investment increases during real downturns or following an equity market bust. …