Over the past two decades, the growth rate of outward foreign direct investment (FDI) from developing and transition …, it is important to assess how domestic investment responds to such outflows. This study empirically examines the effects … of outward FDI on domestic investment in developing countries. Using data from 121 developing and transition economies …

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 …

The apparent slowdown in U.S. investment and productivity growth in recent years has led to a number of proposals to … stimulate investment through the adoption of tax incentives. This paper describes the incentives that were contained in the … changes on investment in the United States is reviewed, and the likely effect of the Budget’s proposals on investment and …

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 …

We estimate international technology spillovers to U.S. manufacturing firms via imports and foreign direct investment …

Domestic savings and investment are positively correlated across countries and through time, as Feldstein-Horioka (FH … relationship is causal: an exogenous rise in savings increases investment. This result holds in the full sample of countries and … not total investment directly. Specifically, we use the share of adults in the [35-49] years of age bracket as an …