on capital deepening and technical progress by examining the impact of regulations on investment (domestic and foreign … privatization) and opening up access to markets where competition is economically viable. The results suggest that pro …-competitive reforms tend to increase both investment and multifactor productivity and, through both these channels, they can lead to …

corporate taxes on productivity and investment. Applying a differences-in-differences estimation strategy which exploits … investment analysis, the results suggest that corporate taxes reduce investment through an increase in the user cost of capital …

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

This paper analyses how different tax policies can affect investment and productivity. To address this question the … differently by taxation. Investment is shown to respond negatively to an increase in the corporate tax rate and a decrease in …

In several OECD countries, investment rates in the business sector grew strongly in the second half of the 1990s. In … some cases, the strength of private investment relative to output growth had raised concerns about the risk of capital … overhang and the prospect of a prolonged period of slow capital formation in order to bring investment levels back to more …

investment. Policies have been put in place to address these problems, but much remains to be done. An important recent … initiative is the enactment of the Investment Law in 2007, which strengthened the foreign investment regime. This paper argues … provisions at the local level of government, improving governance and relaxing remaining restrictions on foreign investment …

on capital deepening and technical progress by examining the impact of regulations on investment (domestic and foreign … privatization) and opening up access to markets where competition is economically viable. The results suggest that pro …-competitive reforms tend to increase both investment and multifactor productivity and, through both these channels, they can lead to …