We provide new evidence on how monetary policy affects investment and firm finance in the United States and the United … conditioning on size, asset growth, Tobin's Q, leverage or liquidity - and drive the response of aggregate investment. Older … and financial frictions in amplifying the effects of monetary policy on investment …

1978-89. These datasets are used to estimate a range of empirical investment equations, and to investigate the role played … the suggestion that financial constraints on investment may be relatively severe in the more market-oriented UK financial …

This paper presents five theoretical openness-and-growth links that can account for trade-induced investment-led growth …, cross-country data suggests that openness influences growth only via its effect on investment, and suggests that openness … promotes investment in all countries whatever the capital-intensive of their exports (contrary to predictions of the old …

novel theoretical model that establishes a link between trade liberalization and investment-led growth. Estimating equations … domestic protection depresses investment and thereby slows growth. Foreign trade barriers also lower domestic investment, but … the anti-investment effect is weaker and is less robust to sample and specification changes …

examine the implications of exchange rates for time series of sectoral investment. Both theoretically and empirically we show … that investment responsiveness to exchange rates varies over time, positively in relation to sectoral reliance on export … differences in investment endogeneity across high and low markup sectors, with investment in low markup sectors significantly more …

Over the past century the long-run growth of six economies shows a strong association between investment in machinery …, and that a high rate of machinery investment is a necessary prerequisite for rapid long-run productivity growth - a …

measures of liquidity on the investment decisions of U. K. firms. These variables are introduced via an extension of the Q … model of investment which explicitly includes agency/financial distress costs. We discuss if the significance of cash flow …

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 …

This paper investigates how Confucianism affects individual decision making in Taiwan and in China. We found that …