Investment in network infrastructure can boost long-term economic growth in OECD countries. Moreover, infrastructure … investment can have a positive effect on growth that goes beyond the effect of the capital stock because of economies of scale … between infrastructure and economic growth. Time-series results reveal a positive impact of infrastructure investment on …

This paper finds that coherent regulatory policies can boost investment in network industries of OECD economies. Rate … changed investment in network industries. According to the theoretical literature, regulatory uncertainty exposes both types …-of-return regulation because investment decisions (what can be included in the rate base) are usually evaluated in a discretionary manner …

The paper analyzes investment behavior of industrial enterprises in the period immediately following price and foreign … microeconomic decisions. A dynamic investment function with symmetric adjustment cost function based on the Euler equation has been … estimated. The derived and estimated investment function accounts for export sales in order to determine whether firms evaluate …

the Arellano-Bond (1991) method to investigate the investment behaviour. We employ the model of optimal capital …

We examine financial constraints and forms of finance used for investment, by analysing survey data on 157 large … assets as appropriate types of finance for their investment programmes. Preferences for raising finance in the form of equity …

We study whether Russian Financial-Industrial Groups facilitate access by Russian firms to investment finance. We … control set of large firms categorized by dispersed ownership or/and management and employee control. We find that investment … reallocation hide opportunistic value transfer across firms. Specifically, we assess the quality of the investment process in group …

Strategic restructuring of firms through investment is key to a transition from plan to market. Using data on … rationed. Given the large volume of non-performing bank loans to firms and the high rate of investment of large state owned and …

simultaneously TFP, Total Factor Productivity, identified as efficiency, and the parameters of a model where investment depends upon … internal funds, wages, and sales, as in Prasnikar J. and Svejnar J. (2000). It shows that while real investment is higher in … foreign firms, the improvement in efficiency due to investment is significantly higher in Hungarian domestic firms. We test …

A multitude of explanations for low investment by Russian firms have been offered: high inflation, high interest rates … investment in Russia will not occur if firms are unable to ensure the security of their property and property rights; that is, if … the risk of destruction or expropriation is high. Nor will investment occur if access to investment funds is limited. Data …