repatriated as dividends to the firms'' headquarters. Despite the rapid growth of foreign direct investment in the 1990s, there … has been relatively limited analysis of the dividend behavior of multinationals. We find that investors in multinationals … dividends, consistent with a view that such regular dividend payments are a mechanism through which to discipline host …

demographic dividend could add about 2 percentage points per annum to India’s per capita GDP growth over the next two decades … interest in the consequent growth dividend, the size and circumstances of the potential gains remain under-explored. This study … makes progress by focusing on India, which will be the largest individual contributor to the global demographic transition …

Greece's investment rate plunged following the Sovereign Debt Crisis (SDC) and remained one of the lowest in the world … in 2019. This paper explores recent investment dynamics and compares them against estimated benchmarks. Our results … suggest that Greece has been under-investing since the SDC, with private investment notably lagging behind. The estimated …

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 …

Investment has grown rapidly in China in recent years, reaching more than 40 percent of GDP. Despite good progress on … bank and enterprise reforms, weaknesses remain that could contribute to inefficient investment decisions. Manufacturing …, infrastructure, and real estate have been the drivers of fixed asset investment. Econometric analysis presented in the paper suggests …

direct investment is also substantial. We explain these features in terms of a conventional neoclassical growth model-with no …

The substantial increase in foreign direct investment (FDI) in recent years has triggered a discussion of a uniform … treatment of investment in international law. Most contributions to the multilateral investment framework derive from the World … restrict their focus on investment to aspects related to international trade and often apply to selected sectors only. A …

The literature on the investment technology of foreign versus domestic investors has inconclusive results. This paper … that foreign investors in India do remarkably poorly at security selection …