This book presents an up-to-date overview of the theory as well as the empirics of the relationship between investment …, the authors discuss both traditional investment models with uncertainty and the more modern option based models. They … present an overview of empirical results of the modelling of investment under uncertainty. In these examples, the effects of …

macroeconomic risk, investors reduce direct investment and hold more bank deposits. This ‘flight to quality’ leaves banks flush with … scarce liquidity so as to boost investment …

In China, between 2006 and 2013, local public debt crowded out the investment of private firms by tightening their … funding constraints, while leaving state-owned firms' investment unaffected. We establish this result using a purpose …-built dataset for Chinese local public debt. Private firms invest less in cities with more public debt, the reduction in investment …