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competition a¤ects the industrial dynamics of investment, concentration, and expected returns. When firms have similar production …
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question, the evidence suggests uncertainty is damaging for short-run investment and hiring, but there is some evidence it may …
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Environmental permits have played a major role in improving industry's environmental performance across the last few decades. Because they adopt a precautionary approach during the setting of environmental requirements, permitting strategies have also favoured pollution prevention. However,...
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This paper investigates the relationship between infation uncertainty and investment using a panel of loan-level data … investment. Moreover, there is a shift in the composition of investment away from fixed assets and towards working capital - the … more flexible factor of production - and fixed asset investment exhibits periods of inaction consistent with real option …
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Whether or not the marginal product of capital (MPK) differs across countries is a question that keeps coming up in discussions of comparative economic development and patterns of capital flows. We use easily accessible macroeconomic data to shed light on this issue, and find that MPKs are...
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This report describes the complex and changing interrelationship between trade, domestic investment and foreign direct … investment (FDI) and provides examples of good practices in trade policymaking that create a healthy investment climate in … and home countries. After describing a typical investment project and its participants, the study identifies issues and …
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This article estimates the effect of visa restrictions on bilateral trade flows and foreign direct investment (FDI … effects, it is at least questionable whether many of the existing visa restrictions would pass a cost-benefit test. …
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