product market, concerning in particular entry barriers, are negatively related to investment. The implications of our … analysis are clear: regulatory reforms, especially those that liberalize entry, are very likely to spur investment …

Has financial liberalization improved the efficiency with which investment funds are allocated to competing uses? In … index of the efficiency of investment allocation that measures whether, and to which extent, investment funds are going to … investment funds are allocated. This conclusion holds after a series of robustness checks and is consistent with firm level …

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 …

measures of liquidity on the investment decisions of U. K. firms. These variables are introduced via an extension of the Q … model of investment which explicitly includes agency/financial distress costs. We discuss if the significance of cash flow …

product market, concerning in particular entry barriers, are negatively related to investment. The implications of our … analysis are clear: regulatory reforms, especially those that liberalise entry, are very likely to spur investment ... …

We present evidence that an increase in investment as a share of GDP predicts a higher growth rate of output per worker … coefficients. They are robust to model specifications and estimation methods. The evidence that investment has a long-run effect on …