. This Economic Bulletin shows that one of Europe's biggest economic weaknesses is a lack of private investment and that a … European investment agenda is vital in order to generate the impetus required to push the European economy towards a … sustainable recovery. European economic policy should focus not on higher public spending, but on increasing private investment as …

. On the other hand, especially in southern European economies, investment - mostly in the home construction sector - was …In the course of the economic and financial crisis, investment activity, which was not very strong to begin with, in … percentage points since 2008. Already prior to the crisis, investment activity was rather weak in parts of the Eurozone - amongst …

We investigate the potential for statistical forecasting of aggregate oil and gas investment on the Norwegian … random walk benchmark in an out-of-sample environment. Second, lags of investment growth, crude oil price growth and realized … volatility is found to be adequate predictors for the investment growth. Finally, there is a clear benefit from re-estimating the …

should focus on fiscal devaluation and NPL resolution to foster cost competitiveness and private investment. A 'Big Push' in … infrastructure investment is imperative for long-term prosperity. An investment volume of EUR 7.7 billion as envisaged in the 'Berlin …

We investigate the potential for statistical forecasting of aggregate oil and gas investment on the Norwegian … random walk benchmark in an out-of-sample environment. Second, lags of investment growth, crude oil price growth and realized … volatility is found to be adequate predictors for the investment growth. Finally, there is a clear benefit from re-estimating the …

efficiency of investment forecasts. …

, owing to limited time series of the available data. This paper presents an analysis of investment in Poland based on an … underexplored sectoral data set. The determinants of investment are found to include lagged investment, lead production, relative … unit labor costs, EU demand, corporate profitability, and greenfield FDI (foreign direct investment) inflows. Dynamic in …

An error correction model of investment in Papua New Guinea is estimated by the Cochrane-Orcutt method. The … determinants of investment are found to be the national income, the real interest rate and net capital flows. The government policy … of maintaining a low real interest rate encourages private investment but might discourage domestic savings and capital …

We investigate the potential for statistical forecasting of aggregate oil and gas investment on the Norwegian … random walk benchmark in an out-of-sample environment. Second, lags of investment growth, crude oil price growth and realized … volatility is found to be adequate predictors for the investment growth. Finally, there is a clear benefit from re-estimating the …

This paper evaluates the impact of the taxation system on factor costs, investment and economic activity. This is … identifies the link between user cost and investment in the context of a full econometric model of investment demand determinants … taxation to investment and economic activity, and assesses the impact of future tax reform proposals …