improved since the mid-1980s; that private investment is mostly influenced by the risk of expropriation, the degree of civil …This paper provides empirical support for the view that enhanced economic security fosters private investment and … liberty, and the degree of independence of the bureaucracy; and that economic growth is affected by the risk of expropriation …

voting decisions. Thus, risk neutral individuals exhibit what we call political risk aversion. Yet individual uncertainty is …

develop a macro-financial structural model with two novel features. First, we include idiosyncratic and aggregate risk in a …

We study the effects of permanent and temporary income shocks on precautionary saving and investment in a ""store … investment, or a ""volatility trap."" Namely, big savers invest relatively little. In contrast, low volatility of permanent … shocks leads to low precautionary saving and high or low investment, depending on the volatility of temporary shocks …

There is increasing emphasis on the importance of efficient financial markets for sustained real investment and …''s investment decisions. The purpose of this paper is to model the impact of financial reforms on borrowing constraints faced by … firms and to test the impact of financial reforms on the investment decisions of firms in Turkey. To do so, the paper builds …

's macroeconomic performance, as reflected by impulse response functions for investment, employment and output. Our study adds to …

This paper documents the recent slowdown in investment in India and explores its underlying causes. The sharp … investment deceleration has sparked an intense debate about the role of interest rates, as well as business confidence and … economic policy uncertainty. Our results suggest that while explaining aggregate investment activity better than nominal …