the United States called Opportunity Zones (OZs). The goal of this provision was to spur private investment in OZs in … the impact of OZs on commercial investment and economic activity. Using data on the universe of all significant commercial … investments in the United States, we find that OZ selection led to practically no increase in investment in OZs. These findings …

-being of residents. A provision of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act aimed to spur private investment in low-income areas called … Opportunity Zones (OZs). We evaluate the impact of OZs on investment using data on the near-universe of commercial retail, office … estimates of the effect of OZ eligibility on census tract-level investment. Additional data from MasterCard show no robust …

This paper assumes the role of advocatus diaboli by testing whether an investment in sin stocks can financially … outperform an investment in socially responsible stocks. We create a set of global, regional, and domestic portfolios consisting …

regional economy-wide and poverty impacts of a US$36 million investment in tourism in the south of Haiti. The first social … representative household configuration to enable more robust analysis of tourism investment impacts on poverty and income inequality … evaluation of trade-offs between investment alternatives. Results of this analysis showed a positive impact on sectoral activity …

The article analyses recent developments in business investment for a large group of EU countries, using a broad set of … analytical tools and data sources. We find that the assessment of whether or not investment is currently low varies across … benchmarks and countries. At the euro area level and for most countries, the level of business investment is broadly in line with …

This paper estimates establishment-level employment effects of investment grants in one of the German Federal States …-specific and regional information from different sources. The results suggest that investment grants have a positive influence on …

Investment in the electricity sector is, nonetheless, a topic with scarce literature. Therefore, the current work to fill this …-run relationship between these variables. Our main result is that Foreign Direct Investment has a negative impact on electricity … consumption in Brazil. Additionally, Foreign Direct Investment has a negative impact in terms of electricity access, at the time …