This paper presents a non-technical overview of the recent investment literature with a special emphasis on the … connection between technological progress and the investment decision. First of all, we acknowledge that some dramatic advances …. Nonetheless, this new literature has not satisfactorily accounted for the investment-specific (or embodied) nature of technical …

In this paper, we extend the usual models of irreversible investment under uncertainty by introducing the stock of … public capital as an input for the private sector. Public investment takes place in a stochastic environment. Public capital … equilibrium analysis, as it is standard in models of irreversible investment under uncertainty. Even under uncertainty, the …

motives for investment. Specifically, firms invest to expand capacity and to replace old machines. The model considers … irreversible investment under uncertainty and embodied technological progress. It is shown to be consistent with the following … empirical observations: Investment is lumpy and infrequent at the firm level; firms can invest even if they have not reached …

In a recent report, BNDES, a major bank financing investment in Brazil, announced that investment in some selected …, given the potential investment in the sectors described above. The objective of this paper is to identify the backward and … forward linkages of the investment matrix for the period 2014 and estimate the spatialdistribution of those sectors in …