, profitability, investment and growth, based on China's manufacturing firm-level dataset over the period 1998 - 2007. First, we find …, the profitability-growth relationship is mediated via investment. Firm's contemporaneous and lagged profitabilities … display positive and significant effect on the probability to report an investment spike, and, in turn, investment activity is …

By incorporating energy-saving through both technology-embodied investment and embodied investment-specific technical … with heterogeneous investment, this paper deepens our understanding of the avenues through which firms adjust to rising … affecting energy pricing and the cost of investment finance across firms of different ownership types …

investments in the developing world, we seek to understand how Chinese investment in Africa, particularly in manufacturing, may … investments and partnerships in Nigeria, a salient destination for Chinese manufacturing foreign direct investment in Africa, and … potential of such mechanisms will depend on the initiative of Nigerian actors to leverage Chinese investment to their interest …

This paper studies how minimum wage policies affect capital investment using the industrial census of manufacturing … borders, we find that minimum wages increase capital investment. The investment response to minimum wages is stronger for …

, profitability, investment and growth, based on China's manufacturing firm-level dataset over the period 1998-2007. First, we find …, the profitability-growth relationship is mediated via investment. Firm's contemporaneous and lagged profitabilities … display positive and significant effect on the probability to report an investment spike, and, in turn, investment activity is …