This study estimates the impact of excess precipitation (or the absence of rainfall) on productivity of agricultural … productivity. Overall, we find statistically significant declines in agricultural productivity that is associated with both floods …

IT investment in any sectors, it does significantly improve labor productivity for firms in manufacturing and in …, cloud usage is expected to increase the productivity of firms, as it allows them to quickly customize the IT they require to …

equilibrium, general-equilibrium effects overturn this result: a monetary expansion increases the investment of high-productivity … their productivity and net worth and face collateral constraints that cause capital misallocation. TFP endogenously depends … firms relatively more than that of low-productivity ones, crowding out the latter and increasing TFP. We provide empirical …

experienced higher levels of agricultural productivity in 1841 and 1852 as well as more investment in irrigation and more … efficient land use. We trace these increases in productivity to an increase in land inequality associated with the Revolutionary …

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 …

encroacher's valuation of the asset is increasing in the asset owner's investment. Due to incomplete property rights, the … encroacher and asset owner engage in a contest over the control of the asset after investment has taken place. A standard result … is that the asset owner will underinvest in the asset relative to the first-best level of investment when property rights …

demonstrates the neutrality properties of the reform with respect to investment, firm financial decisions and organizational choice …. Tax rates are chosen to prevent income shifting from labor to capital income. The reform decisively strengthens investment …

There is a lack of clear evidence of the ways in which dividend taxation affects dividend distributions and investment …