A recently much debated issue is why observed investment and growth rates inpoor countries are lower than traditional … theory predicts. Empirical evidencesuggests that social and political instability is a major reason for thedivergence between … investment rates is notmonotonic but follows a hump-shaped pattern. The empirical evidence shows thatalthough very poor economies …

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. …

decreases investment substantially. Theseresults are neither in line with expected utility theory norwith psychologically …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 …

penalize poorly performing entrepreneurs by terminating their projects. Based on this tradeoff we develop a theory of financing …