) while lifting safe assets (U.S. investment-grade bonds and long-term Treasury bonds). In addition, lower oil prices boost …

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 …

This paper investigates the effect that tight credit conditions had on outward foreign direct investment flows during … of the global financial crisis on foreign direct investment. The global financial crisis had a stronger negative impact … on the relative volume of outward foreign direct investment in financially vulnerable sectors in more financially …

Between 1999 and 2008, world oil prices more than quadrupled in real terms. For oil importers, vulnerability to oil … domestic product. Oil intensity fell in more than half the countries in every income group and in every region of the world … pass-through to consumers of increases in world prices of gasoline, diesel, kerosene, and liquefied petroleum gas between …