. Most analyses of energy-efficiency policies ignore this variation, focusing on total energy savings without regard to when … as well as a variety of alternative energy-efficiency investments. The results illustrate a surprisingly large amount of …

Many analysts have argued that energy efficiency investments offer an enormous "win-win" opportunity to both reduce … negative externalities and save money. This overview paper presents a simple model of investment in energy-using capital stock … imperfect information that cause consumers and firms not to exploit privately-profitable energy efficiency investments. The …

the present value of the returns from an initial investment of [1pound], using the social discount rate, should be equal …

We develop a dynamic model of trading and investment with limited aggregate resources to study investment cycles …. Unverifiable idiosyncratic investment opportunities imply market prices to play a role of rent distribution, distorting private … investment incentives from a social point of view. This distortion is price-dependent, leading to two-sided inefficient …

In his Fisher-Schultz Lecture, Martin Feldstein examined the effects of non-neutral tax rules on business investment by … existing U.S. tax rules, substantially discouraged investment in the past 15 years." In a detailed examination of Feldstein … with the relatively robust levels of net investment between 1965 and 1981 actually shown in the newly benchmarked National …

This article estimates a dynamic structural model of firm R&D investment in twelve Swedish manufacturing industries and … uses it to measure rates of return to R&D and to simulate the impact of trade restrictions on the investment incentives. R … both the expected return to R&D and R&D investment level, thus reducing an important source of the dynamic gains from trade …

How does rising foreign investment influence domestic economic activity? Firms whose foreign operations grow rapidly …-specific geographic distributions of foreign investment, to predict changes in foreign investment by a large panel of American firms …. Estimates produced using this instrument for changes in foreign activity indicate that 10% greater foreign capital investment is …