This paper examines the behavior of business fixed investment in the United States in the 1980s. A background … discussion of the long-term behavior of the components of business fixed investment is provided, setting the context for the … empirical analysis. A standard neoclassical model of business fixed investment is specified and estimated, with output and the …

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 …

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 …

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

investment but that they do not appear to account fully for recent weak performance, suggesting a key role of the business … environment in reviving corporate investment. Analysis of micro panel data suggests that improving the business environment by …Since the global financial crisis, corporate investment has been weak in India. Sluggish corporate investment would not …

We study the effects of permanent and temporary income shocks on precautionary saving and investment in a ""store … investment, or a ""volatility trap."" Namely, big savers invest relatively little. In contrast, low volatility of permanent … shocks leads to low precautionary saving and high or low investment, depending on the volatility of temporary shocks …

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 …

This paper uses the financial crisis of 2008 as a natural experiment to demonstrate that when measuring investment … investment-cash flow sensitivity, which decreased substantially after the crisis when banks changed their expectations about the … value of assets on firms'' balance sheets. This paper deepens our understanding of firms'' investment behavior …

This paper analyzes the evolution of investment in China, its main features, and its key determinants. In recent years …, manufacturing, real estate, and infrastructure have been the main drivers of investment. Investment remains largely concentrated in … determinants of investment indicates that financial variables, such as interest rates, the exchange rate, and the depth of the …