Pennings (2000) has shown that the government can speed-up investment by subsidizing the potential investing firm …'s entry cost while taxing the future proceeds from the investment, so as to render the net expected value of its subsidy … program zero. This note argues that while speeding-up the investment timing, this subsidy-tax program also lowers the value of …

Aggregate and sector-level investment equations that incorporate the exchange rate are estimated for a panel of 17 OECD … aggregate investment in both the short run and the long run. This effect is negative in all sectors in the short run, is … wage, have an insignificant impact on investment in the short run in most sectors, but a rise in the real wage has a …

The Chinese economy does still not qualify as demand-driven economy. Its growth is based on investment. In fact … successive waves of investment have emerged during the eighties and produced a piling-up of productive systems. A wave of small … national enterprises and entrepreneurs, a second large wave of foreign direct investment from overseas Chinese mainly from Hong …

For much of human history, most people have been deprived of liberty without economic and investment opportunities …

proposed vegetable crops . The investment itself involves setting up a vegetable farm in protected areas, whose capacity will …, drill, plug, etc. In the analysis performed we estimated two hypothetical situations: where basic investment expenditures … (106,578 lei) are covered by the loan to the bank and the situation in which the investment is financed 40% by way of grant …

investment by that firm, both in the short and long-term. In the presence of ‎this interaction term, linear variables in oil … shocks depress investment more at firms facing greater uncertainty. An increase in firm ‎stock price volatility continues to … reduce the link between sales growth and investment in the ‎presence of oil price shocks as in Bloom et al. (2007).‎ …

using a real options approach, much as they do when making other types of capital investment decisions. Theoretically we … option to learn about the productivity of potential hires before permanent investment occurs. Higher uncertainty and … adjustment costs hinder permanent investment and increase the value of the option to learn. Greater competition for workers …