the rich to the detriment of the poor. The use of financial and investment dimensions previously missing in the literature …

Hitherto very few studies on the inequality-finance(investment) nexus have focused on the African continent owing to … lack of relevant data. This paper integrates previously missing investment and financial components in the assessment of … how finance affects pro-poor investment channels. Findings reveal, but for the case of foreign investment, financial …

private investment: contrary to mainstream consensus where-in, English common-law countries are better at championing private …

intermediary channels of depth, efficiency, activity and size. Findings show that legal origin matters in the finance-investment … nexus; though its ability to explain aggregate investment dynamics only through financial intermediary channels is limited …

We study how alternative measures of market concentration may explain investment decisions of Mexican manufacturing … econometric assessments suggest that investment decisions of Mexican firms can be better explained by the Dominance Index measure … certain characteristics of the firms (size, cash flows, investment opportunities and capital intensity) as control variables. …

We study how the ownership and control structures may explain investment decisions of Mexican manufacturing firms. We … claim that agency costs, as a measure of the separation of management and control, and firms` size can explain investment … decisions. Furthermore the estimations support the necessity to include investment opportunities and cash flow as control …

We study how competition and corporate governance may explain investment decisions of Mexican manufacturing firms. We … census data. Our results suggest that investment is better explained by the Dominance Index, a Mexican measure of … ownership and control), and market competition may encourage investment decisions. Furthermore they suggest an inverse …

-variance framework. We find that an increase in expected output price will surely cause the risk averse firm to increase the inputs …’ demand, while an increase in expected energy price will surely cause the risk averse firm to decrease the demand for energy … risk averse firm to decrease the demands for the non-risky inputs. Furthermore, we investigate the two cases with only …