manufacturers in China’s wind power industry. …

This paper is based on the model of backward linkages from foreign direct investment (FDI) Lin/Saggi (2003), where the …

We estimate the effect of electorally induced policy uncertainty on investment in the manufacturing sector. Because …, and because the policies relevant to business investment vary systematically by party, uncertainty over the partisan … affiliation of the future governor is a source of political risk to firms considering business investment. More importantly, the …

In this paper we present a new database that allows deep industry-level growth accounting from 1991-2003. The database … allows for the first complete analysis of the German industry performance drivers based on the contributions of 12 asset … types in 52 different industries. The industry sources of productivity and output growth are crucial to the understanding of …

accounting database that provides detailed industry-level investment information. While much attention has focused on the … dramatically during the same period. We examine the sources of Germany's productivity demise using the ifo industry growth … reduction in German labor hours, our data show that Information, Communication and Technology (ICT) investment in Germany was …

The ifo Investment Survey asks firms in the German manufacturing sector about the importance of sales, technological … factors, finance, return expectations, and macroeconomic policy for their investment activity in a given year. We show that … these subjective investment determinants 1) capture economically what their labels suggest, and 2) have strong explanatory …

balancing investment incentives with allocative efficiency and competition objectives. Intermediate regulation is compatible … regulation and efficient investment is thus in doubt. Incentive regulation for regular infrastructure investments therefore needs …

strong IPR diminish competition and welfare, however. Adding foreign direct investment as an additional channel of technology …