-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 …

Contrary to mainstream consensus on the dominance of English common law countries in investment prospects, this paper … in private investment. The assessment is based on 38 African countries for the period 1996-2007. The law mechanisms of … North African) have influenced a plethora of investment dynamics (domestic, foreign, private and public). The dominance of …

intermediary channels of depth, efficiency, activity and size. The findings show that legal origin matters in the finance-investment … nexus, though its ability to explain aggregate investment dynamics only through financial intermediary channels is limited …

investigate the effect of FDI on private investment. It also explores if the relationship between FDI and private investment is … investment is more important than FDI in terms of the contribution to total investment, and that FDI inflows and private … investment are higher in countries with good governance. Interestingly, the findings demonstrate that FDI tends to displace …

financially turbulent periods in the 2000s in making investment decisions and in meeting demand for liquidity. A rise in … uncertainty regarding the ability to obtain external funds may have induced firms to rely on internal funds to finance investment … activities. Therefore, we shed light on the cash flow sensitivity of investment and cash holdings by estimating firm- level …

In China, between 2006 and 2013, local public debt crowded out the investment of private firms by tightening their … funding constraints, while leaving state-owned firms' investment unaffected. We establish this result using a purpose …-built dataset for Chinese local public debt. Private firms invest less in cities with more public debt, the reduction in investment …

’ substantial investment in intangible assets such as R&D, design, and advertising. These investments are not classified as … investment in the National Accounts, however, in which only tangible assets are defined as investment. This paper provides … estimates of investment in intangible assets and uses the growth accounting framework to analyze the Swedish productivity boom …