Japanese IT investment has stagnated. Though some Japanese companies are investing in IT, this does not represent … offensive IT investment. I analyzed what kind of IT investment would lead company profit, growth, and what kind of IT investment … made reluctance for companies. I found out empirical relations between IT investment and corporate productivity. Analyses …

This book investigates the relation between investment, R&D, and long-run growth. Its first part surveys the literature … economic growth as being driven by the complementary processes of physical capital investment and R&D activity, rather than by … of this study acquires a fundamental understanding of the relation between investment, R&D, and long-run growth. Thus …

role of rising rates of investment. Because labor reallocation across sectors, TFP growth at the sector level and … investment are all inter-related, simple growth decompositions that are often used in the literature are not appropriate for … continues to absorb more than half of all fixed investment. If capital had been allocated efficiently, China could have achieved …