access to additional financing. Overall, the results suggest that the bundle of inputs that angel investors provide have a …

It is well understood that investment serves as a shock absorber at the time of crisis. The duration of the drag on … investment, however, is perplexing. For the nine Asian economies we focus on in this study, average investment/GDP is about 6 … markedly as public and private sectors look inward when external financing becomes prohibitively costly, altogether impossible …

that have positive cost of capital shocks and larger financing needs. We also find that firms respond with additional …

product market, concerning in particular entry barriers, are negatively related to investment. The implications of our … analysis are clear: regulatory reforms, especially those that liberalize entry, are very likely to spur investment …

through which upstream sector anticompetitive regulations may impact productivity growth: business investments in R&D and in … data such as improvements in skills, management and organization. For this, we specify an extended production function … relating productivity explicitly to R&D and ICT capital as well as to upstream regulations, and two factor demand functions …

and its investment decisions leads to a systematic premium in the firm's share price relative to expected dividends. Noisy …'s decisions to their own benefit. The managers take advantage of shareholders by taking excessive investment risks when the market …