foreign direct investment is not robustly detected when the data is purged from the effects of special purpose entities and …

In this paper, we study the effect of share issue privatization (SIP) on private investment and financial market under … incomplete risk diversification. Risk neutrality and imperfect intertemporal substitutability make investment decreasing in … privatization (crowding-out effect). Vice-versa with risk aversion and perfect intertemporal substitutability (diversification …

This paper examines the investment and financial decisions of a sample of 92 EU regulated utilities, taking into … independence matters for both investment and financial decisions. Investment increases under an Independent Regulatory Agency (IRA … privately controlled. Finally political orientation does matter, as firm investment increases under more conservative (pro …

Our research tests the difference in investment efficiency between state-owned enterprises (SOEs) and private firms and … then evaluates the effect of privatisation and equitisation policies on the investment efficiency of former state owned … spending. We find no evidence of investment spending being linked to marginal returns by SOEs across all sectors and size …

, three, and five-year investment horizons. …

Foreign direct investment (FDI) is often seen as a means to boost domestic investment and, hence, capital accumulation …. Yet, the empirical support for such a positive investment effect of FDI is inconclusive. A possible reason is that FDI is … often directed towards the financial sector, where capital investment tends to be low. In this paper, we first explore the …

, which is that even though global financial markets appear to be integrated, levels of saving and investment are correlated …

the privatization. The two key mechanisms explaining the results are: (i) a government owner keeping control takes into … account the negative effect on employment of investment and (ii) a privatizing government has a stronger incentive to invest …

In this paper, we study the effect of share issue privatization (SIP) on private investment and financial market under … incomplete risk diversification. Risk neutrality and imperfect intertemporal substitutability make investment decreasing in … privatization (crowding-out effect). Vice-versa with risk aversion and perfect intertemporal substitutability (diversification …