positive program treatment effect on employment, investment and net entry but not on TFP. OLS underestimates program effects …,300 suggesting that in some respects investment subsidies can be cost effective. …

continues to absorb more than half of all fixed investment. If capital had been allocated efficiently, China could have achieved …China has achieved impressive growth over the last three decades. However, there has been debate over the sources of … role of rising rates of investment. Because labor reallocation across sectors, TFP growth at the sector level and …

model incorporating England's and China's distinct pre-modern risk-sharing institutions. The model predicts a transition in … England and not China even with equal levels of risk sharing. Under the clan-based Chinese institution, the relatively risk …We analyze the role of risk-sharing institutions in transitions to modern economies. Transitions requires individual …

, especially those related to having an open capital account, do not loom large in the case of China. In the process of securing …

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 …

banking development reduces the cash flow sensitivity of fixed investment spending, particularly for small firms, and that it …

The empirical identification of non-linearities in investment relies on how investment is assumed to be separated into … investment which allows us to observe regime separation, an aspect of the data that is typically absent from previous empirical … concentrating investment in a single year. Moreover, there is evidence that investment is more sensitive to fundamentals in the high …