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 …

-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 …

countries. We analyze a novel bank-level data set from Nepal, where a steady inflow of remittances has contributed to foreign …

In the absence of financing frictions, profit taxes reduce investment by their effect on the user cost of capital. With … finance constraints due to moral hazard, investment becomes sensitive to cash-flow and own equity of firms. We propose a … corporate finance model of investment and derive three central results: (i) Even small taxes impose first order welfare losses …

Empirical evidence that migrants send home more remittances after disasters raises the question of whether remittances … remittances, which supports the idea that remittances act as (self-) insurance. We also show that purchasing formal funeral cover …