U.S. business investment has taken a serious toll during the global financial crisis and also in the recovery phase … investment did not pick up as expected. What is surprising is that the alleged investment slowdown happened at a time of record …, and strong labor markets-factors established in supporting business investment. Applying accelerator models and Bayesian …

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 …

determine savings, investment and growth. Investment is assumed to involve intermediation or other costs which may, in each … activities to facilitate private investment can influence saving. In particular, a sustained period of fiscal restraint can shift …

This paper incorporates time-to-build into the standard investment model with convex adjustment costs. The empirical … imposed by time-to-build on the investment equation. The results indicate that these restrictions cannot be rejected for five … variation in persistence of structure investment across four-digit industries …

We analyze the impact of trade policy uncertainty on investment in the euro area. Our identification strategy assumes … that countries that are relatively more dependent on global trade networks exhibit a higher sensitivity of investment with … respect to trade uncertainty. We find that the investment-to-GDP ratio is on average 0.8 percentage points lower for five …