enterprises, on the allocation of talent, and on investment. It also discusses the impact of corruption on some aspects of public …The paper discusses some channels through which corruption affects growth such as the impact of corruption on …

alternative stabilization/reform packages as a function of the scope of corruption activities. The framework developed herein is a … basic one in which only the most fundamental questions (such as the effects of anti-corruption government policies on output …, and is able to explain why, even when able to eliminate corruption activity altogether, governments may choose not to do …

foreign direct investment—structural reforms tend to dominate the corruption variable …Recent studies have highlighted the adverse impact of corruption on economic performance. This paper advances the … hypothesis that corruption is largely a symptom of underlying weaknesses in public policies and institutions, a formulation that …

Greece's investment rate plunged following the Sovereign Debt Crisis (SDC) and remained one of the lowest in the world … in 2019. This paper explores recent investment dynamics and compares them against estimated benchmarks. Our results … suggest that Greece has been under-investing since the SDC, with private investment notably lagging behind. The estimated …

In this paper I apply firm-level analysis to examine how the Brexit process has affected business investment in the UK … had a considerable and statistically significant negative impact on firm investment in the UK after the referendum. At the … same time, the post-referendum sterling depreciation has likely contributed positively to investment expenditure by more …

Investment has grown rapidly in China in recent years, reaching more than 40 percent of GDP. Despite good progress on … bank and enterprise reforms, weaknesses remain that could contribute to inefficient investment decisions. Manufacturing …, infrastructure, and real estate have been the drivers of fixed asset investment. Econometric analysis presented in the paper suggests …

direct investment is also substantial. We explain these features in terms of a conventional neoclassical growth model-with no …

The substantial increase in foreign direct investment (FDI) in recent years has triggered a discussion of a uniform … treatment of investment in international law. Most contributions to the multilateral investment framework derive from the World … restrict their focus on investment to aspects related to international trade and often apply to selected sectors only. A …