, we study whether trustees can signal their trustworthiness by giving to charity. Our results show that donors are indeed … generosity, such as investments in corporate social responsibility or donations to charity during a political campaign, can …

Firms can donate a share of profits to charity as a form of corporate social responsibility (CSR). Recent experiments … suggested. We also show that firms substitute donations to charity with lower wage offers, keeping their profits constant but … reducing workers' earnings. Initiatives of corporate philanthropy can thus be marginally beneficial for firms, but considerably …

donations into different types of philanthropy, with charitable contributions to caring, needy and religious organizations … to the victims of the tsunami on future donations to charity, however, our findings suggest an inverse relationship with … the largest inverse association with donations to needy and caring organizations. -- Charity ; donations ; system tobit …

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 …

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 …