the United States called Opportunity Zones (OZs). The goal of this provision was to spur private investment in OZs in … the impact of OZs on commercial investment and economic activity. Using data on the universe of all significant commercial … investments in the United States, we find that OZ selection led to practically no increase in investment in OZs. These findings …

developing countries see insufficient investment in projects that would reallocate labor towards better jobs. The concept of JLEs … investment. This paper shows that the optimal way to allocate subsidies to offset JLEs is through a competitive bidding process …

This paper estimates the direct effects of investment tax credits on firms' production behavior and the additional …

remain - and the Covid-19 shock may have exacerbated them. This report analyses European firms' investment in training over … the last six years examining trends, factors supporting training investment as well as the impact of the Covid-19 shock …. We base the empirical analysis on a unique dataset, the European Investment Bank's Investment Survey (EIBIS), which …

This paper estimates the causal effect of corporate tax hikes on firm investment based on more than 1,400 local tax … changes. By observing planned and realized investment volumes in a representative sample of German manufacturing firms, we can … study how tax hikes induce firms to revise their investment decisions. On average, the share of firms that invest less than …