Psychic distance, as described in the Uppsala internationalization model, is based on the impediments to information …

strategies to attract investors. Targeted interviews of people focussed on attributes of an investment opportunity. Analysis … sceptical of information coming from within these industries that is not sufficiently supported by fact. There are many … implications from these findings including the need for the industries to: understand the investment decision process; provide …

utilities, and energy-efficiency and load-management programs, the need will increase for comprehensive and accurate information …, because of the need to improve economic productivity, and because state regulatory commissions will provide financial … between the information available on these two types of resources. 49 refs., 15 figs., 11 tabs. …

the determinants of telecommunications investments and presents two possible solutions to the investment problem. The …

looks at the effects on productivity of different forms of investment--in physical capital, in Research & Development, and …The relationship between technology, productivity and employment is a complex one. Increased productivity can lead not … can develop new markets. On the other hand, if demand and hence output does not expand in line with productivity, then an …

access to credit increasesTFP up to 1.9% per 1000 EUR of additional credit. The use of variable inputs and capital investment … increases up to 2.3% and 29%, respectively, per 1000 EUR of additionalcredit. Due to credit-financed investment in labour …

An important theme in modern research on productivity has been that technological progress may be embodied in capital …

to improve their establishment level productivity relative to a peer control groups of firms. We find no evidence that … productivity after going private, there is little evidence of difference-in-differences efficiency gains relative to peer groups of … decision effects. Also, we do not find evidence that myopic markets lead to under-investment at the establishment level. On the …