The recovery of private investment in Italy has lagged its euro area peers over the past decade. This paper examines … capacity to invest. Empirical analysis provides evidence for the impact of wages on investment at the sectoral and firm levels …. Sectoral wage growth seems unrelated to sectoral productivity growth, but is negatively associated with investment. Firm …

Investment across the euro area remains below its pre-crisis level. Its performance has been weaker than in most …, corporate leverage, and uncertainty. There is a considerable cross country heterogeneity in terms of both investment dymanics … and its determinants. Based on the findings of this paper, investment is expected to pick up as the recovery strengthens …

and investment high. It finds that the low cost of capital has been quantitatively an important factor. Theory predicts … China is to rebalance growth towards relying more on consumption and less on exports and investment, banking sector reforms …

This paper analyzes the evolution of investment in China, its main features, and its key determinants. In recent years …, manufacturing, real estate, and infrastructure have been the main drivers of investment. Investment remains largely concentrated in … determinants of investment indicates that financial variables, such as interest rates, the exchange rate, and the depth of the …

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 …