This paper investigates the effect of firm-level investment on the levels of income inequality and poverty. Using a … sample of firms from 87 countries for the period from 1979 to 2018, we document that firm-level investment is negatively … investment proxies, empirical model specifications, and a variety of country-level controls. Further evidence shows that firm …

study, I examine how introducing a time delay into the execution of an investment plan influences individuals' risk … outset, in the Decision Stage (Stage 1), each subject was asked to make an investment plan by splitting a monetary investment … amount between a risky asset and a safe asset. Subjects were informed that the investment plans they made in the Decision …

The interest rate is generally considered as an important driver of macroeconomic investment. As an innovation, this … paper derives the exact shape of the "hysteretic" impact of changes in the interest rate on macroeconomic investment under … capital stock and, explicitly, of stochastic changes on the interest rate-investment hysteresis. Starting with hysteresis …

The interest rate represents an important monetary policy tool to steer investment in order to reach price stability …. Therefore, implications of the exact form and magnitude of the interest rate-investment nexus for the European Central Bank … impact of changes in the interest rate on macroeconomic investment under certainty and under uncertainty to investigate …

In this paper, we present a simple model in which a unionized and non-unionized firm optimally make investment …

developing countries see insufficient investment in projects that would reallocate labor towards better jobs. The concept of JLEs … investment. This paper shows that the optimal way to allocate subsidies to offset JLEs is through a competitive bidding process …