Evidence on the "funding gap" for investment innovation is surveyed. The focus is on financial market reasons for … funds for financing such investments and they manage their cash flow to ensure this. Evidence shows that there are limits to …

This paper evaluates evidence of the impact of outbound foreign direct investment (FDI) on domestic investment rates …. OECD countries with high rates of outbound FDI in the 1980s and 1990s exhibited lower domestic investment than other … countries, which suggests that FDI and domestic investment are substitutes. U.S. time series data tell a very different story …

This paper is a contribution to the small but growing literature that compares the investment and R&D behavior of … of a simple error-corrected investment model for both ordinary investment and for R&D investment, a model that … incorporates both output (sales or turnover) and cash flow as predictors for investment. Our focus is on two comparisons: France …

This paper examines the investment effects of tax subsidies for which some assets and not others are eligible …. Distortionary tax subsidies encourage firms to concentrate investments in tax-favored assets profitability of investment and …, which in turn discourages investment. Borrowing rates react so strongly that aggregate investment may rise very little, or …

About 20 percent of the gross investment expenditures of U.S. manufacturing firms is expenditures on research and … development. Like investment in physical capital, R&D also responds to news about future prospects of the firm, such as … types of investment to changes in the value of the firm's assets as perceived by financial markets and the interaction of …

The taxation of corporate assets is well understood to influence investment and firm valuation. This paper explores the … incentives than those implied by the usual static analysis. Simulation results suggest that investment is sensitive to future tax …

Harberger triangles are used to calculate the efficiency costs of taxes, government regulations, monopolistic practices … evaluation of deadweight loss estimates led to new theories of rent-seeking and other inefficiencies of economies with multiple …