municipalities crowds out private investment. Our results show how crowding out can happen in a developed economy characterized by … market power to charge higher rates on their SME customers. This crowded out firm investment. Perversely, fiscal … which increasingly borrowed from local public banks. Crowding out lowered aggregate private investment by around 30-40 bio …

We investigate the potential for statistical forecasting of aggregate oil and gas investment on the Norwegian … random walk benchmark in an out-of-sample environment. Second, lags of investment growth, crude oil price growth and realized … volatility is found to be adequate predictors for the investment growth. Finally, there is a clear benefit from re-estimating the …

For a long time, China’s impressive growth performance has been driven by investment and high productivity gains. Based … sustainability of China’s investment- and export-driven growth model. It is shown that since the turn of the millennium buoyant …

When investment is irreversible, theory suggests that firms will be "reluctant to invest." This reluctance creates a … wedge between the discount rate guiding investment decisions and the standard Jorgensonian user cost (adjusted for risk). We …

firms in making their investment decisions. We use a revealed preference approach that relies on the pattern of investment … spending - combined with investment theory - to estimate the discount rates used by managers. The standard story predicts that … firms with high stock prices and good investment opportunities should have discount rates that do not differ systematically …

model features irreversible investment, no capital markets and fixed and sunk costs to export. Several features of the … distribution of investment rates and export participation patterns observed in firm-level data are closely matched in a calibration …

, resulted in lower investment, employment, and bank debt for younger and smaller firms. Importantly, these effects dominate … those of banks’ balance-sheet variables. We also show that higher CDS spreads led to lower aggregate investment, employment …