Over the past two decades, the growth rate of outward foreign direct investment (FDI) from developing and transition …, it is important to assess how domestic investment responds to such outflows. This study empirically examines the effects … of outward FDI on domestic investment in developing countries. Using data from 121 developing and transition economies …

This fifth edition of Trends in Private Investment in Developing Countries provides private and public investment data … from 1970 through 1992. The Discussion Paper also includes aggregate data on net foreign direct investment and a brief … discussion of the effects of recent privatization activities on private investment flows …

This fifth edition of Trends in Private Investment in Developing Countries provides private and public investment data … from 1970 through 1992. The Discussion Paper also includes aggregate data on net foreign direct investment and a brief … discussion of the effects of recent privatization activities on private investment flows …

Private investment in developing countries continued its upward trend in 1996, the most recent year for which data … exist, on an unweighted average basis. Public investment rates continued a decline that began in the early 1980s. The … largest increases in private investment between 1995 and 1996 occurred in Malawi, Mauritania, Benin, Papua New Guinea and …

This study looks at firms' investment spending in fixed and intangible assets around three types of national elections … investments decrease by 4.36% in parliamentary election years. Moreover, investment responses to electoral shocks differ markedly … within political systems and countries' institutional settings. Investment levels shift significantly downward in pre- and …

-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 …

billion investment. The project is expected to bring about flood of opportunities not only for the two main players but other … nations which are found to be interested in making investment. The benefits seem to be game changer and expected to raise …

What drives a firm's investment decisions in China? While most literature focuses on the role of financial factors … fundamentals. Empirical results show that private firms cherish investment opportunities more in China. State-owned enterprises … respond more to the investment opportunities from the supply side, but much less so to demand-side shocks. These findings …

What drives a firm's investment decisions in China? While most literature focuses on the role of financial factors … fundamentals. Empirical results show that private firms cherish investment opportunities more in China. State-owned enterprises … respond more to the investment opportunities from the supply side, but much less so to demand-side shocks. These findings …

Greece’s investment rate plunged following the Sovereign Debt Crisis (SDC) and remained one of the lowest in the world … in 2019. This paper explores recent investment dynamics and compares them against estimated benchmarks. Our results … suggest that Greece has been under-investing since the SDC, with private investment notably lagging behind. The estimated …