especially important in countries with high rates of investment (and thus high rates of labor transfer) and/or at low levels of …

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 …

In the last few decades, real GDP growth and investment in advanced countries have declined in tandem. This slowdown … issue. We show that aggressive central bank action may revive gross investment, but it will not revive net investment or …

This paper contributes to the debate on the relationship between public-capital accumulation and private investment in … the past three decades, we study whether public investment in recent years has become more or less complementary to … private investment in comparison to the period before 1980. Second, we construct a novel data-set of quarterly aggregate …