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 …

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 …

applied to a business firm's dynamic problem of determining its optimum level of investment activity, when the longevity (life … span) of the investment is itself a variable determined by the level of investment. Usually, the longevity of an investment … is taken as given and fixed. Here, the level of investment activity has a dual effect, determining not only the longevity …

investment. This paper examines the reform’s impact on US inbound foreign direct investment (FDI) and investment in property … inbound FDI and PPE investment. We find that both PPE investment and FDI financed with retained earnings responded positively … macroeconomic controls renders tax rate coefficients insignificant, suggesting that the increase in PPE investment after TCJA was …

This paper examines the investments made by China in key African countries and analyses the effects of such investment … on the tax base of such African countries. The aim of this analysis is to determine whether the costs of such investment … are commensurate to the benefits derived, or to be derived, from the investment. This paper will further consider whether …