-economic situation, the source of its power and status. …

In this paper two hypotheses about the relationship between monetary policy and investment in the context of the … hypothesis is based on the reject of that idea. An investment equation for the Brazilian economy was estimated (1848-2005), and a … that a negative correlation between current expectation of restrictive monetary policy and current investment rose after …

order to assess the firm’s behavior with respect to investment and service quality. The observed results do not contradict … the theoretical expectation of underinvestment. There is evidence that investment since privatization was sufficient to … improve the firm’s performance with respect to its own past results; nevertheless, investment was insufficient to raise …

. Furthermore, the large Brazilian hydropower system requires special treatment if we are to have investment in hydro and in thermal …

The paper carries out an exploratory analysis of the determinants of the level of investment of manufacturing firms in … Brazil, from 1996 to 2006. The exercise departed from the premise that investment responds both to internal and external … distinct analytical levels. The results confirmed the accelerator effect of investment, revealed the relevance of introduction …