determinants of R&D investment at the level of the firm. While finding further support for the well-established technology-push and … demand-pull hypotheses, this study also tests the role of skill endowment in increasing a firm's R&D investment. Consistently …

investment in knowledge, and its productivity, looking at sectoral peculiarities which may emerge; to this end, we use a large …

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 …