start-up enterprises if future losses of the start-up investment are partly covered by the government. …

stagnation of investment, especially private fixed investment, was the primary culprit. I then investigate the causes of the …

We examine quantitatively the extent to which financial distress in the 90s affected Japanese corporate investment …. Based on the firm-level data that includes small, unlisted firms, we estimate investment function to measure the impact of … financial distress on investment. We find that the firm's ratio of debt to total asset exerts a significantly negative effect on …

's variable costs is significant, and that in its sunk investment is weak. Investment may be greater when the number of trading …

We study the implications of product market competition and investment for price setting, wage bargaining and thereby …

We present evidence that an increase in investment as a share of GDP predicts a higher growth rate of output per worker … coefficients. They are robust to model specifications and estimation methods. The evidence that investment has a long-run effect on …

dynamics as investment conditions are similar. Our results are consistent with this hypothesis. Furthermore, there is no …

competitors. Because workers participate in the returns on investment while only firms bear the costs, investment is inefficiently … low. A binding minimum wage can achieve the first-best level of investment, both in the short run for a given number of …