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 …

The previous literature points to a high correlation between domestic rates of investment and savings among OECD … investment on the rate of domestic savings is statistically insignificant most of the time and generally smaller than 0.3 for any …. In particular, we control for measurement error, business cycle effects, and country-specific fixed effects …

assumption of a one-period perturbation in the capital stock. Instead it allows a permanent investment. While this may appear a … the original EATR: despite the assumption of a one-period investment, the original measure is informative about long …

This paper shows that aggregate investment expenditure shares on tradable and nontradable goods are very similar across … nontradable goods in investment can be modeled using the Cobb-Douglas aggregator …

This paper estimates an empirical model for investment in the West African Economic and Monetary Union (WAEMU), a … region with relatively low investment shares, using annual data for the period 1970-95. Cross-country and time … transactions, and low dependency ratios are positively correlated with investment in the WAEMU region …

Investment-to-GDP ratios across the Caribbean tend to be relatively high. In many countries, these ratios have been … trending higher since the mid-1990s, largely reflecting public investment and foreign direct investment. Private domestic … investors have been less prominent. This may be one reason why such high investment has delivered Caribbean growth rates below …

examines the implications of treating intangible spending as an acquisition of final (investment) goods on GDP growth for … Canada. It finds that investment in intangible capital by 2002 is almost as large as the investment in physical capital. This …