Official government statistics on the "mission-distribution" ofU.S. R&D investment are based on the assumption that … thosefor major weapons systems. To test the hypothesis of, and estimate thequantity of, private investment in 'signaling' R …

We present a model of endogenous firm growth with R&D investment and stochastic innovation as the engines of growth …) firm growth independent of firm size, as stated in the so-called Gibrat's law, and (iii) R&D investment proportional to …

by subsequent embodiments in physical capital. Traditionally, the only distinction between R&D and physical investment … the observed higher volatility of physical investment (relative to R&D expenditures) …

This paper analyzes the impact on firm behavior of the Homeland Investment Act of 2004, which provided a one-time tax …. Repatriations did not lead to an increase in domestic investment, employment or R&D -- even for the firms that lobbied for the tax …

decrease their Ramp;D spending (our main proxy for long-term investment) more than Japanese firms. We find no evidence that …

, and the effects of different investment profiles on total factor productivity growth on Dutch firm-level data. We estimate … an integrated model of investment profile adoption and total factor productivity growth. We find that the three … investment decisions are complementary, in the sense that investing in one increases the probability of investing in another one …