features of the world at present are the low rates of investment and growth in some of the richest countries, whose surpluses … account for about half of the US deficit. The result is that financial capital is flowing out of countries with low investment …

We develop a model of investment with financial constraints and use it to investigate the relation between investment … between q and investment, relative to the frictionless benchmark. We present a calibrated version of the model, which, due to … this effect, generates realistic correlations between investment, q, and cash flow …

accelerations and collapses are asymmetric phenomena. Collapses typically feature reduced manufacturing and investment amidst … regularly grow rapidly, and the role of aggregate investment in growth accelerations is negligible …

since the 1950s. Growth accelerations tend to be correlated with increases in investment and trade, and with real exchange …

. Third, and most importantly, we present new evidence on the time paths of economic growth, physical capital investment and … liberalization has, on average, robust positive effects on growth, openness and investment rates within countries. We illustrate …

We document regularities in the distribution of relative incomes and patterns of investment in countries and over time …. We develop a quantitative version of the neoclassical growth model with a broad measure of capital in which investment … slowest growing countries in the model have growth rates and investment-output ratios similar to those in the data. In both …

politico-economic environment, reduces investment. As a consequence, income inequality and investment are inversely related …. Since investment is a primary engine of growth, this paper identifies a channel for an inverse relationship between income … are investment and an index of socio-political instability. Our results are robust to sensitivity analysis on the …

argued in two papers that the link between equipment investment and economic growth across countries is stronger than can be … generated by the Solow model. Accordingly, they conclude that such investment yields important external benefits. However, their … externalities to equipment investment. In particular, we find that the empirical link between investment and growth in the OECD …

Using data from the United Nations Comparison Project and the Penn World Table, we find that machinery and equipment … investment has a strong association with growth: over l9&)?l95 each percent of GDP invested in equipment is associated with an … any of the other components of investment. A variety of considerations suggest that this association is causal, that …

This paper revisits the association between investment and growth. The empirical findings highlight substantial … heterogeneity for the effect of investment on growth and suggest a possible negative association. Results based on a battery of … cross-sectional and time-series regressions show that the link between investment and growth has weakened over time and that …