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 …

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 …