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 …

reallocated from the private to the public sectors, reducing investment and deepening the recessions even further. To account for …. This implies that domestic debt purchases displace productive investment. The model shows that these purchases reduce …

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 …

become a deterrent for foreign investment. Different multinationals may view this deterrent differently. This paper develops …

Do tax incentives for science and technology stimulate additional investment? We use detailed data on applications and …&D investment in manufacturing is quite high in Colombia compared to other countries, particularly for smaller firms, but that the … for such incentives to promote R&D investment in Colombia, but in their current form, they fail to target those firms that …

examines the implications of treating intangible spending as an acquisition of final (investment) goods on GDP growth for … Canada. It finds that investment in intangible capital by 2002 is almost as large as the investment in physical capital. This …