This paper examines the impact of financial liberalization on fixed investment in Mexico, using establishment …

Despite Mexico’s recent remarkable progress in adjusting its fiscal and external accounts and in restructuring its … economy, the recovery of growth has remained elusive. This paper reviews some aspects of Mexico’s recent performance and … among the factors that have contributed most to delaying the private sector’s investment response and preventing a …

sectors of Colombia and Mexico. The findings show that investment patterns in these countries resemble those reported for the … United States to a surprising extent. Capital adjustments beyond maintenance investment occur only rarely, but large spikes … account for a significant fraction of total investment. Although duration models do not provide strong evidence for the …

This study shows that in Mexico there is a long-run relationship between the real exchange rate and capital inflows …

This paper examines dynamic patterns of investment in Cameroon, Ghana, Kenya, Zambia and Zimbabwe, assessing the … importance of zero investment episodes and lumpy investment. The proportion of firms experiencing large investment spikes is … significant in explaining aggregate manufacturing investment. Taken together, evidence from descriptive statistics, average …