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state spending, investment, and employment. …
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With North Korea going nuclear, tensions ever present in the Taiwan Strait, and growing posturing over territories thought to be rich in resources, the question of how lasting peace, order, stability and prosperity can be achieved in Northeast Asia has become increasingly important....
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certain industry. Modeling outcome also suggests that a long-run economic growth requires direct investment of internal … savings into appropriate investment vehicles with exclusion from savings-investment chain the interest-rate-bearing bank …
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amounts of employment and capital investment in North America and Europe. In contrast to much of the existing literature which … focuses on the impact of R&D and patents on firms’ performance and productivity, we examine data on actual investment … technology. We find that firms which made decisions to implement a greater number of investment transactions in modernization …
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Pennings (2000) has shown that the government can speed-up investment by subsidizing the potential investing firm …'s entry cost while taxing the future proceeds from the investment, so as to render the net expected value of its subsidy … program zero. This note argues that while speeding-up the investment timing, this subsidy-tax program also lowers the value of …
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The aim of the paper is to critically describe the behaviour of the main Italian transport infrastructural agents (national roads and rails, highway, airports concessions) in the field of infrastructure financing. All the actors are trying to avoid the effects of regulation and, at the same...
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Aggregate and sector-level investment equations that incorporate the exchange rate are estimated for a panel of 17 OECD … aggregate investment in both the short run and the long run. This effect is negative in all sectors in the short run, is … wage, have an insignificant impact on investment in the short run in most sectors, but a rise in the real wage has a …
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The paper discusses the present regulatory framework in Italy concerning transport infrastructures financing and provides some policy indications. The Italian situation is characterised by non homogeneity among the transport modes and insufficient, or even perverse, incentives to efficiency....
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The Chinese economy does still not qualify as demand-driven economy. Its growth is based on investment. In fact … successive waves of investment have emerged during the eighties and produced a piling-up of productive systems. A wave of small … national enterprises and entrepreneurs, a second large wave of foreign direct investment from overseas Chinese mainly from Hong …
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For much of human history, most people have been deprived of liberty without economic and investment opportunities …
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