This study explores the determinants of investment using both aggregated industry-level data and disaggretated data on … government has potentially powerful means at its disposal to stimulate private investment. In particular, a domestic demand … stimulus and public investment expansion will produce large gains in private investment. While the direct effects of lowering …

, investment growth and employment growth, and their response to high nominal GDP growth regimes -- Chapter 10 The impact of the … debt-to-GDP ratio on investment growth -- Part 2: Fiscal budget balance deficits -- Chapter 11 Budget deficit thresholds …: Interest rates -- Chapter 14 Widening budget deficits and investment growth dynamics -- Chapter 15 Do high debt service costs …

The article analyses recent developments in business investment for a large group of EU countries, using a broad set of … analytical tools and data sources. We find that the assessment of whether or not investment is currently low varies across … benchmarks and countries. At the euro area level and for most countries, the level of business investment is broadly in line with …