constraints and providing a key financing source for public investment in RRDCs, temporary resource revenues might then be … public investment and several frictions that capture pervasive features in RRDCs, including absorptive capacity constraints …, inefficiencies in investment, and borrowing constraints that can be relaxed when natural resources lower the country risk premium …

result of low investment. Latin America is poorer because of lower human capital levels and lower TFP-not because of a lower … business climate indicators converge rapidly. Poor countries without those attributes do not. We show that low investment is …

We study the effects of permanent and temporary income shocks on precautionary saving and investment in a "store … investment, or a "volatility trap." Namely, big savers invest relatively little. In contrast, low volatility of permanent shocks … leads to low precautionary saving and high or low investment, depending on the volatility of temporary shocks. Empirical …

reallocated from the private to the public sectors, reducing investment and deepening the recessions even further. To account for …. This implies that domestic debt purchases displace productive investment. The model shows that these purchases reduce …

We examine determinants of, and interactions between, capital inflows, financial development, and domestic investment … macroeconomic policy. Both private capital inflows and domestic credit exert a positive effect on investment; they also mediate most … of the investment impact of the global price of risk and domestic borrowing costs. Surprisingly, neither greater domestic …