Tax incentives are a key component of governments’ investment policy mix as they directly impact companies’ tax burden …. In this paper, we illustrate the EU’s tax attractiveness as investment location over time in terms of effective average …

are the only source of investment because of the demographic structure of the overlapping generations model. This result …

Investment fell sharply in the euro area after the financial crisis and has not yet returned to pre-crisis levels in … investment dynamics. By doing so, we compare five prominent uncertainty proxies put forward in the recent literature: the … type of uncertainty proxy, we document pronounced negative investment responses to uncertainty shocks. We further show that …

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 …

the low carbon-emitting sector, and (ii) reduce real investment and the capital stock in the highly carbon-emitting sector …, while real investment in the sector with low carbon emissions tends to fare better. To apply the theoretical predictions to … low carbon emissions, and (ii) substantial investment reallocation takes place, in particular from the manufacturing …

Based on the relation between investment and domestic saving proposed by Feldstein and Horioka (1980) to verify capital … autoregressive (SVAR) involving investment and saving in order to evaluate the effect of exogenous shocks through impulse response … showed that investment is sensitive to contemporaneous innovation on saving and this effect lasts for a long time. Regarding …

properties of the equilibrium investment behavior. The bilateral external benefits induce an investment multiplier effect. This … how it interacts with other important factors such as the costs of investment and the signaling incentives induced by …