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 …

This paper analyzes the joint effect of EPL and financial market imperfections on investment, capital … stronger in firms with lower levels of internal resources. We find that, on average, EPL reduces investment per worker, capital …

This paper explores the long run relationship between public and private investment in the euro area in terms of … capital stocks and gross investment flows. Panel techniques ac-counting for international spillovers are employed. While … private and public capital stocks are cointegrated, the evidence is quite fragile for public and private investment flows …

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 …

efficiency arguments are questionable, because of the disemployment effects of strict regulation. Regulation is better explained … rationally desires strict regulation to divert rent from other groups such as the skilled workers and the unemployed. Legal … tradition. Given a predisposition to intervene, these countries begin with some degree of labour regulation, which then creates …

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 …