This paper analyzes gender differences in the investment activity of German small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs … if they invest, then their average investment rate is lower. These differences cannot entirely be explained by firm or … owner characteristics. Furthermore, women’s investment is less sensitive to cash flow, which indicates that it is unlikely …

This paper investigates the effects of uncertainty on the investment behaviour using firm-level data for a sample of … invested. Furthermore, the difference between reversible and irreversible investment is crucial. The impact of volatility on … irreversible investment is far more larger than on reversible investment. In some cases, the amount of reversible investment will …

We develop a model of investment with financial constraints and use it to investigate the relation between investment … between q and investment, relative to the frictionless benchmark. We present a calibrated version of the model, which, due to … this effect, generates realistic correlations between investment, q, and cash flow. …

-level investment over the business cycles from 1977 to 2011. A dynamic econometric specification of capital accumulation including … find that the investment effects of the variables capturing the demand-side of the capital market, i.e. sales growth and … Tobin's q, behave counter-cyclically, whereas this does not hold for the investment effects of supply-side variables such as …

This paper examines the impact of outward foreign direct investment (OFDI) on domestic investment by applying co … of the US, OFDI has positive long-run effects on domestic investment while in the case of Germany the reverse effect is …

When investment is irreversible, theory suggests that firms will be "reluctant to invest." This reluctance creates a … wedge between the discount rate guiding investment decisions and the standard Jorgensonian user cost (adjusted for risk). We …

investment - results that are consistent with the model's predictions. …

appears unaffected: investment rates are flat, and productivity has slowed down. We investigate whether measurement issues … as intermediate consumption. Thus they do not count as either GDP or investment. We ask how treating such spending as … investment affects some key macro variables, namely, market sector gross value added (MGVA), business investment, capital and …

holds for the microeconomic response of some of the most important economic variables, such as investment, labor demand, and … actual response to shocks is less than half as fast as the estimated response. For investment, labor demand and prices, the …, even after aggregating investment across all establishments in U.S. manufacturing, the estimate of its speed of adjustment …

developing world. I study the role played by parents' educational investment to explain this inequality and its determinants. To … study the role of household resources. I find that investment decisions are driven by efficiency considerations rather than … inequality concerns over children's final outcomes. Because parents perceive investment to be 12 percent more productive for the …