, performance and R&D investment. This study attempts to identify determinants of provision of credit guarantees and estimate their …&D investment relationships. This study results in identification of factors that enhances efficiency of funds and their effects on … firms' R&D investment behavior. It enables feedback effects on the public funds selection of firms guaranteed. A number of …

investment in information and communication technology (ICT) and energy use, influence productivity levels. A dynamic factor … the allocation of public investment and support is limited. The results presented herein show that ICT/non-ICT capital … investment are substitutes for labor and energy use. We also find a high output growth rate in the sampled sectors, and …

loans on production and investment decisions, input use, and yields. Using a multiple treatment methodology, it explores the … important as lack of funding for new investment in capital for rural producers in Mexico. Producers benefit from easing their …

tax imposed on owners of small and medium sized businesses affects their firms' investment and employment decisions …

The interest rate is generally considered as an important driver of macroeconomic investment. As an innovation, this … paper derives the exact shape of the "hysteretic" impact of changes in the interest rate on macroeconomic investment under … capital stock and, explicitly, of stochastic changes on the interest rate-investment hysteresis. Starting with hysteresis …

employers' decision to invest in employee training. We combine survey data on investment activities with administrative data on … investment in training as a share of fixed assets by 2.9 to 4.5 percent and investment in training per employee by 1.8 to 2 ….5 percent. We document that lower investment in training reduces productivity, and show that firms facing tighter financing …

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 …

This paper presents a two-period human capital investment model of married and single immigrants under binding … shown that the comparative advantage in investment that determines which spouse will invest more in local skills depends on … partial specialization in work and investment activities within immigrant households. However, the level invested by each …