Even modest investment rates may achieve satisfactory rates of growth in the reforming economies of Eastern Europe … investment is uncertainty about the reform process, which can potentially rule out all but the most profitable projects. This … form of loans and foreign direct investment …

main form of private inflows was foreign direct investment. Portfolio investment was volatile and concentrated in a handful … of countries. Regressions show that direct investment can be well explained in terms of economic fundamentals, whereas … seem to have had a robust effect on portfolio investment …

liberalization, is modeled as foreign direct investment induced Schumpeterian (vertical) waves of product innovation. The growth of …

In this paper I apply firm-level analysis to examine how the Brexit process has affected business investment in the UK … had a considerable and statistically significant negative impact on firm investment in the UK after the referendum. At the … same time, the post-referendum sterling depreciation has likely contributed positively to investment expenditure by more …

This paper proposes a possible framework for identifying excessive investment. Based on this method, it finds evidence … that some types of investment are becoming excessive in China, particularly in inland provinces. In these regions, private … consumption has on average become more dependent on investment (rather than vice versa) and the impact is relatively short …