the different response of business confidence and private investment. …

This paper evaluates the effects of fiscal policy on investment using a panel of OECD countries. In particular, we … investigate how different types of fiscal policy affect profits and , as a result, investment. We find a sizable negative effect … of public spending -- and in particular of its public wage component -- on business investment. This result is consistent …

In this paper we offer an analysis of the effects of uncertainty about future tax policy on irreversible investment …. The main message of the paper is that investment is not much affected by the degreee of tax policy uncertainty. This is … that reducing tax policy uncertainty is probably no magic bullet to increase private investment spending …

This paper analyses the impact of exchange rate uncertainty upon the pattern of investment in different exchange rate … exchange rate regimes indicates that currency volatility exerts only a small influence upon the level of investment spending …

attracting the external savings that help finance the American investment and its current account. The excess of global savings … is also a factor to be taken into account since it supports capital flows to the United States and investment in this … high risk aversion after the 1997-1998 crisis and an ongoing commitment with export-led growth), a position sustained …