continues to absorb more than half of all fixed investment. If capital had been allocated efficiently, China could have achieved …China has achieved impressive growth over the last three decades. However, there has been debate over the sources of … role of rising rates of investment. Because labor reallocation across sectors, TFP growth at the sector level and …

We argue that positive comovements between land prices and business investment are a driving force behind the broad … joint dynamics of land prices and business investment. …

guarantee existence. When investment adjustment costs are introduced, the monetary and fiscal policy dichotomy is in principle …

using an empirical example of UK investment data. …

behavior. In particular, we ask whether and how strongly investment decisions of firms respond to stringency in environmental … estimate the differential impact of environmental stringency on four types of investment: gross investment in tangible goods …, in new buildings, in machinery, and in `productive' investment (investment in tangible goods minus investment in …

The link between investment and finance usually enters the empirical literature in the form of financial constraints … credit market. In this context, the sensitivity of investment with respect to single internal or external finance indicators … resulting empirical investment function includes the probability of survival as an additional explanatory variable. This …

?s Investment Tests (IT) during the years 1988-1998, we create a panel with information on investment, innovation activity and … financing conditions. Financial constraints affect the distribution of investment over time in a fundamental way. Following a … on Schworm?s (1980) model of optimal investment under financial constraints, we use it to test the empirical content of …

relationship between investment activity and financial constraints is theoretically ambivalent due to simultaneity, the link … take longer to close capacity gaps. This indicates that financial constraints do indeed play a part in the investment …

The impact of uncertainty on firms' investment outlays is subject to an ongoing debate. Theory identifies several … investment likely. On the other hand, the ability of firms to adapt after uncertainty is resolved can make a risky strategy more …'s investment outlays using the database of the Deutsche Bundesbank's corporate balance sheet statistics. Our database represents …