lower and investment 15-22 percent weaker in crisis episodes. Third, a rapid buildup of debt, whether public or private …Emerging market and developing economies have experienced recurrent episodes of rapid debt accumulation over the past … fifty years. This paper examines the consequences of debt accumulation using a three-pronged approach: an event study of …

The authors assess the effects of private capital and independent regulatory agencies on telecommunications performance …

pronounced in countries with better corporate governance standards and education. Buyout investment responds to these factors … more so than foreign direct investment and gross domestic fixed investment …

Evidence shows that foreign direct investment can provide many benefits to host countries, including productivity … better integration with global value chains. Nonetheless, these benefits are not automatic. Investment policies are required … to maximize the potential gains of foreign direct investment. One challenge is that there are different kinds of foreign …

This paper considers institutional and structural factors associated with investment activity in a panel of up to 129 … developed and developing countries. It introduces these factors to a standard neoclassical investment function for open …, institutional quality tends to survive as the causal determinant of investment …

compatible" -- future. However, private investment will only flow at the scale and pace necessary if it is supported by clear …, credible, and long-term policy frameworks that shift the risk-reward balance in favor of less carbon-intensive investment. The … lower investment risk. Barriers to low carbon investments often include unclear and inconsistent energy policies, monopoly …

?s transition economies and comparable estimates for high-income countries, thereby covering more than 90 percent of world …