-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 …-specific investment ; growth …

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 …

-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. …

(US, Europe, Asia/Pacific, the Rest of the World and the Total) and investment types (Buyout & Growth Equity, Venture …This paper analyses the stochastic behaviour of Private Equity returns (a measure of profitability) applying fractional …