A recently much debated issue is why observed investment and growth rates inpoor countries are lower than traditional … investment rates is notmonotonic but follows a hump-shaped pattern. The empirical evidence shows thatalthough very poor economies … have very low investment rates there are'intermediately' developed economies that exhibit extremely high investmentrates …

In this paper we perform a meta-analysis on empirical estimates of the impact between investment and uncertainty. Since … investment research. For example, not including factor prices in investment models may seriously affect the model outco! mes … can explain to a large extent why empirical estimates of the investment-uncertainty relationship differ. …

This paper experimentally investigates investment behavior.We find that global risk – i.e. risk independent of an agent …’sinvestment decision (like political risk) – substantiallydecreases investment. Also effort to obtain the capital usedfor investment … decreases investment substantially. Theseresults are neither in line with expected utility theory norwith psychologically …

’ adaptation to the loss situation and, subsequently, whether this adaptation affects future investment decisions. As investors … performance, together influence the decision to hold on to or to capitulate on an investment. We study the relative contribution … decision to capitulate an investment, however, only depends directly on the expectation about the stock’s future performance …

environment.Until recently, empirical studies measuring just how important institutions are for growthand investment have been ….In this paper the most important empirical studies on the relationship betweeninstitutions and growth and investment, and the …,showing as an important aside which (economic) variables have been found to be robustlyrelated to growth and investment. Section …