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 …

business investment. To promote economic convergence of Eastern and Western Germany after reunification, bonus depreciation tax … control group, we address the question if and to what extent these investment tax incentives boosted investment. In line with … were cut back in 1997. Moreover, there was a significant reduction in building investment in the year after the expiration …

data and triple-difference estimators, we find that this dividend tax cut affects allocation of corporate investment. Cash …-constrained firms increase investment after the dividend tax cut relative to cash-rich firms. Reallocation is stronger among closely … and by higher dividends in cash-rich firms after the tax cut. The heterogeneous investment responses imply that the …

This paper considers cost-reducing R&D investment with spillovers in a Cournot oligopoly with overlapping ownership. We …

share of industry. Thus geographic advantage in tax competition has a second dimension, centrality in addition to size …

This paper is based on the model of backward linkages from foreign direct investment (FDI) Lin/Saggi (2003), where the … pure monopoly. We extend this model by examining cases of perfect competition and a vertically integrated domestic company … larger are the backward linkage effects. They reach their maximum under perfect competition in the intermediate goods market …