decline of 6.5 percent in investment among publicly traded oil and gas companies between 2015 and 2019, with European …. Results support the Neoclassical investment model, which predicts a pre-emptive cut in investment in reaction to downward … shifts in prospective demand, in contrast with the "green paradox" that predicts an increase in current investment to shift …

Recent literature has shown that corporate indebtedness affects firm-level investment behavior but not necessarily … substitute depressed investment by their financially constrained competitors. The increase in investment, primarily driven by … equilibrium effects are unambiguously countercyclical because the increase in investment by unconstrained firms does not crowd out …

This paper uses the financial crisis of 2008 as a natural experiment to demonstrate that when measuring investment … investment-cash flow sensitivity, which decreased substantially after the crisis when banks changed their expectations about the … value of assets on firms' balance sheets. This paper deepens our understanding of firms' investment behavior …

Since the global financial crisis, corporate investment has been weak in India. Sluggish corporate investment would not …, this paper analyzes the reasons for the slowdown and discusses how India can boost corporate investment, using both macro … investment but that they do not appear to account fully for recent weak performance, suggesting a key role of the bu …

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 …

Now close to 50 percent of GDP, this paper assesses the appropriateness of China's current investment levels. It finds …, partly due to a surge in investment over the last decade. Moreover, its investment is significantly higher than suggested by …

Real estate investment accounts for a quarter of total fixed asset investment (FAI) in China. The real estate sector … estate investment in China though a low-probability event would be sizable, with large spillovers to a number of China … and the rest of the G20 economies, we find that a 1-percent decline in China's real estate investment would shave about 0 …

examines the implications of treating intangible spending as an acquisition of final (investment) goods on GDP growth for … Canada. It finds that investment in intangible capital by 2002 is almost as large as the investment in physical capital. This …

Over the past decade, China's growth model has become more reliant on investment and its footprint in global imports … has widened substantially. Several economies within China's supply chain are increasingly exposed to its investment …-led growth and face growing risks from a deceleration in investment in China. This note quantifies potential global spillovers …