payments and the balance of trade), investment income, and government and private financial flows. In addition, the accounts … measure the value of U.S. international assets and liabilities and direct investment by multinational companies. BEA’s data on … direct investment - the most detailed data set on the operations of multinational companies available - are used to assess …

The influence of capital gains taxes on investment decisions is a central issue of accounting and public finance … interdependencies of investment and divestment decisions have to be identified, especially under timing flexibility. This paper closes … this gap by simultaneously analyzing investment timing and abandonment decisions for risky irreversible investment projects …

Business support policies designed to raise productivity and employment are commonworldwide, but rigorous micro … positiveprogram treatment effect on employment, investment and net entry but not on TFP. OLSunderestimates program effects because the … insome respects investment subsidies can be cost effective.... …

[...]One important theme, common to both views, is thatinvestment is a fundamental part of the growth process.Investment … investment good since software code is adurable asset that contributes to production over several years.[...] …

industry. Estimation of productivity dynamics and of behavioraldecision rules are separated into recursive stages. Using … plausible estimates with small standard errors. Decision ruleestimates show that productivity beliefs affect investment and exit … idiosyncraticproductivities and update productivity beliefs using information revealed by their productionexperience. The estimator relies on the …

dispersion in the rates of return to investment. During bubbly episodes, unproductiveinvestors demand bubbles while productive … investors supply them. Because of this, bubbly episodeschannel resources towards productive investment raising the growth rates … of capital and output. Themodel also illustrates that the existence of bubbly episodes requires some investment to be …

This paper sheds light on the influence of exchange rate volatility on foreign direct investment (FDI), both at the …-options theory of a multinational, which contemplates FDI to relocate production abroad under a stochastic exchange rate. The model … provides a theoretical rationale for this findingand offers new insights in the investment-uncertainty relation. Both the …