This paper investigates how macroeconomic uncertainty affects the fiscal multiplier of public investment. In theory …. Conversely, it can increase the fiscal multiplier if public investment shocks improve private agents' expectations about future …, we find that unexpected increases in public investment have larger and longer-lasting effects on output, investment, and …

theory (Myers 1977). We also find that the effect of public investment on corporate investment is much weaker for firms that …This paper explores whether public investment crowds out or crowds in private investment. To this aim, we build a … database of about half a million firms from 49 countries. We find that the effect of public investment on corporate investment …

We contrast how monetary policy affects intangible relative to tangible investment. We document that the stock prices … total investment in firms with more intangible assets responds less to monetary policy, and that intangible investment … responds less to monetary policy compared to tangible investment. We identify two mechanisms behind these results. First, firms …

While expanding public investment can help filling infrastructure bottlenecks, scaling up too much and too fast often … public investment in a large sample of road construction projects in developing countries. Consistent with the presence of … absorptive capacity constraints, our results show a non-linear U-shaped relationship between public investment and project costs …

We show that the response of firm-level investment to real exchange rate movements varies depending on the production … structure of the economy. Firms in advanced economies and in emerging Asia increase investment when the domestic currency … well as some advanced economies with a low degree of structural economic complexity, corporate investment increases when …

vulnerable to financial frictions. By sheltering intangible investment from financial shocks, counter-cyclical macroeconomic … policy through the intangible investment channel, and its complementarity with pro-competition product market deregulation …

lead to investment and growth, they reduce the government''s ability to increase supporters'' consumption. The model … predicts that resource abundance is conductive to poor policies and, consequently, to low investment. The implications of the …