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 …

This paper explores the long run relationship between public and private investment in the euro area in terms of … capital stocks and gross investment flows. Panel techniques ac-counting for international spillovers are employed. While … private and public capital stocks are cointegrated, the evidence is quite fragile for public and private investment flows …

rate of labor productivity in Europe between 1999 and 2005. We find that one extra hour of training per employee …

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 …

financial markets work, and stress the vital need of preventing financial devices that result in productive investment crowding-out …

level, raises the amount of investment per worker in the economy compared to a one-tier bargaining scheme, in which earnings … investment per worker and the presence of a two-tier bargaining agreement that we find in a representative sample of Italian …

channels of the capital stock effects, i.e. using variables like interest rates or investment ratios in the estimation of …

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 …