We provide evidence of an inherent trade-off between access regulation and investment incentives in telecommunications … accommodates: different investment incentives for incumbents and entrants; a strategic interaction of entrants' and incumbents … investment. Thus promoting market entry by means of regulated access undermines incentives to invest in facilities …

This paper analyses the impact of exchange rate uncertainty upon the pattern of investment in different exchange rate … exchange rate regimes indicates that currency volatility exerts only a small influence upon the level of investment spending …

A recently much debated issue is why observed investment and growth rates inpoor countries are lower than traditional … investment rates is notmonotonic but follows a hump-shaped pattern. The empirical evidence shows thatalthough very poor economies … have very low investment rates there are'intermediately' developed economies that exhibit extremely high investmentrates …

We examine firms' simultaneous choice of investment, debt financing and liquidity in a large sample of US corporates … affect the corporate decisions of unconstrained firms more strongly than those of constrained firms. Investment-cash flow … sensitivities are particularly intense for unconstrained firms with high hedging needs. Investment opportunities (as proxied by Q …