China's increased trade with and investment in Africa have boosted the continent's economic growth but have also … generated considerable controversy. In this paper we investigate China's outward direct investment ODI in Africa using macro and … investment is small, though growing rapidly. China's attraction to resource-rich countries is no different from Western …

The paper analyses adverse investment, growth and distributional effects of ultra-loose monetary policies based on the … substitute real investment by financial investment. When interest rates are expected to fall in the long term, the marginal and …

In this paper we present the Ifo Investment Database, which provides annual investment data for 12 investment assets in … allows allocating investments by asset type to each industry, using an investment flow matrix. The database enables … researchers to analyze structural investment behavior on the industry level and to identify changes in the importance of in-vestment …

view (i.e., including human capital) of investment and saving. We find that the Feldstein-Horioka result is impervious to …

banking on carbon emissions, technological progress, and optimal investment decisions is quantified and the incentives that …

We develop a dynamic multi-country trade model with foreign direct investment (FDI) in the form of non-rival technology … actual aggregate cross-section data for 89 countries in 2011 to a hypothetical world without FDI. The gains from FDI amount … to 9% of world's welfare and to 11% of world's trade, unevenly distributed among winners and losers. Net exports of FDI …

-enhancing investment in relationship-specific assets by signalling creditworthiness and long-term planning horizon of their borrowers. We … empirically confirm this hypothesis by showing that industries dependent on relationship-specific investment from their suppliers …

that arise along the way. Special attention is given to Norway, the world's third largest oil exporter, and the role of …

most countries around the world. Turning to the relationship between countries, we show that average life satisfaction is …