drivers of prosperity – investment, skills and ideas – to New Zealand. The reforms of the 1980s and 1990s laid much of the … regulation. Policies should be refocused around the productivity goal in a number of areas, beginning with those covered in this … paper, namely international trade, the business climate for domestic and foreign investment, public sector efficiency …

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 …

We present a comparable set of results on the monetary transmission channels on firm investment for the four largest … channel. For each of those countries, we estimate neoclassical investment relationships, explaining investment by its user … cost, sales and cash flow. We find investment to be sensitive to user cost changes in all those four countries. This …

participation, the economic role of the public sector, wages, savings and investment, trends in the emigration of local level … investment. References, statistical tables. …

The literature on the investment technology of foreign versus domestic investors has inconclusive results. This paper …