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 …

that happen in emerging markets. Stronger institutions, particularly better governance and more democratic systems …

, unrest lowers confidence and raises uncertainty; however, its adverse effect on GDP can be mitigated by strong institutions …

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 …