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 …

Despite the growing support for market-oriented strategies, and for a greater role of private investment, empirical … growth models for developing countries typically make no distinction between the private and public components of investment … public sector and private sector investment. This model is estimated for a cross - section sample of 24 developing countries …

among the factors that have contributed most to delaying the private sector’s investment response and preventing a …

We introduce a new suite of macroeconomic models that extend and complement the Debt, Investment, and Growth (DIG …'s properties by analyzing the growth, debt, and distributional consequences of big-push public investment programs with different … mixes of investment in human capital and infrastructure. We show that investment in human capital is much more effective …

This paper provides empirical support for the view that enhanced economic security fosters private investment and … improved since the mid-1980s; that private investment is mostly influenced by the risk of expropriation, the degree of civil …

The previous literature points to a high correlation between domestic rates of investment and savings among OECD … investment on the rate of domestic savings is statistically insignificant most of the time and generally smaller than 0.3 for any …