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 …

investment in information and communication technology (ICT) and energy use, influence productivity levels. A dynamic factor …This empirical study examines changes in industrial productivity in Korea between 1980 and 2009, focusing on how … productivity growth in 30 industrial sectors. Describing industry-specific productivity levels is important for policymakers when …

/EU productivity gap. We find robust evidence that US firms have a higher capacity to translate R&D into productivity gains (especially … in the high-tech industries), and this contributes to explaining the higher productivity of US firms. Conversely, EU … firms are more likely to achieve productivity gains through capital-embodied technological change at least in medium and low …

This paper investigates the effect of awarding a second investment grant to the same firm. We implement a Regression … and their scores to firms' performance. Overall, our results show a positive and significant impact of an investment grant … booster shot on firms' labour productivity. This effect is significantly larger than the effect of a single grant. A more …

We present new evidence on how employment growth varies across firm types (size, productivity, and wage) and over the … hirings from/to employment (poaching) and net hirings from nonemployment. High-productivity firms are the most growing firms …

unemployment response; and the very slow rate of recovery. We review the literature which finds most of the decline in productivity … intensification but employers appeared incapable of turning this effort into improved workplace level productivity. Widespread pay …

The decisions of firms on investment and hiring play a crucial role in business cycle fluctuations. This paper explores … investment costs. It is significant and negatively signed, implying complementarity between investment and hiring. There is a … the investment part of the model is poor if hiring is left out completely or is introduced without the interaction between …

our key results to alternative data sets. -- China ; investment ; growth ; productivity ; capital market distortions … 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 …

we use data on market sector productivity, R&D and non-R&D intangible assets, and public sector R&D spending. We look for … 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 …