We examine whether government ideology was correlated with the growth in military expenditure in Germany over the … growth in military expenditure increased by about 2.4 percentage points, when the ideology variable (right-wing) increased by …

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 … average efficiency of investments fall along, dampening GDP growth. We further show that the prolonged period of very low …

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 …

In this paper we present a new database that allows deep industry-level growth accounting from 1991-2003. The database … types in 52 different industries. The industry sources of productivity and output growth are crucial to the understanding of … enables researchers to develop an adequate picture of the sources of growth using standard growth accounting techniques. We …

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

We study the dual relationship between market structure and prices and between market structure and investment in …. Furthermore, they also lead to higher investment per mobile operator, though the impact on total investment is not conclusive. Our …

-tax country induces bunching. Such bunching promotes investment incentives in the low-tax as well as the high-tax country. In … equilibrium, affiliates might over-invest and the bunching-related investment effects generate a tendency for too high profit … investment incentives and transfer pricing induces inefficiently low taxes …

and short-term planning horizon can also lead to such underinvestment. Subsequently, banks can stimulate growth …-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 …

resources, economic growth, and some of the main determinants of growth, including democracy …