, potentially spurring productive investment. Low interest rates, however, also induce entrepreneurs to lever up so as to increase … their incentives thereby lowering productivity and discouraging investment. If leverage is unregulated (for example, due to … payouts by stimulating investment in response to adverse shocks only up to a level below the first-best. The optimal monetary …

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 …