of the minimum wage on human capital investment rates and no overall effects on fixed capital investment rates. When …

In this paper, we investigate the effect of real estate prices on productive investment. We build a simple theoretical … framework of firms' investment with credit rationing and real estate collateral. We show that real estate prices affect firms … identification of the second channel allows for heterogeneous effects of real estate prices on investment across firms. We test our …

The interest rate represents an important monetary policy tool to steer investment in order to reach price stability …. Therefore, implications of the exact form and magnitude of the interest rate-investment nexus for the European Central Bank … impact of changes in the interest rate on macroeconomic investment under certainty and under uncertainty to investigate …

documented by Monte Carlo experiments. An empirical application to modelling of real GDP growth and investment-output ratios … dominant effects are found. The results also suggest that increase in investment as a share of GDP predict higher growth rate …

determinants of R&D investment at the level of the firm. While finding further support for the well-established technology-push and … demand-pull hypotheses, this study also tests the role of skill endowment in increasing a firm's R&D investment. Consistently …

role of rising rates of investment. Because labor reallocation across sectors, TFP growth at the sector level and … investment are all inter-related, simple growth decompositions that are often used in the literature are not appropriate for … continues to absorb more than half of all fixed investment. If capital had been allocated efficiently, China could have achieved …

techniques, we estimate a structural labour market model for each group and evaluate the unemployment contributions of investment …