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 …

While the recent increase in foreign direct investment (FDI) to African countries is a welcome development, the … the impact of FDI on development is through its effects on domestic factor markets, especially domestic investment and … employment. In this context, this study analyses the two-way linkages between FDI and domestic investment in Sub-Saharan Africa …

evidence of market sector spillovers from intangible investment and from public R&D. We find (a) no evidence of spillover … effects from intangible investment at the market sector level, including from R&D, (b) strong evidence of market sector …

positive program treatment effect on employment, investment and net entry but not on TFP. OLS underestimates program effects …,300 suggesting that in some respects investment subsidies can be cost effective. -- industrial policy ; regional policy ; employment … ; investment ; productivity …

more precise measures of inward investment into the model, by allowing for differences in the effects between horizontal … and vertical FDI. Secondly, after establishing the effects that inward investment has on wage inequality, we then analyse … the reasons for this in terms of the wages paid to skilled and unskilled workers, and the effect that inward investment …

Previous papers tested the validity of the Family Investment Hypothesis (FIH) among immigrants by comparing the labor … credit constraints are binding, then only married immigrants can cross-finance their investment within the family. In order … to a rejection of the FIH in both countries. -- Family investment model ; labor supply …