In several OECD countries, investment rates in the business sector grew strongly in the second half of the 1990s. In … some cases, the strength of private investment relative to output growth had raised concerns about the risk of capital … overhang and the prospect of a prolonged period of slow capital formation in order to bring investment levels back to more …

We examine the impact of financial liberalization on fixed investment in Mexico using establishment-level data from the …

We examine how credit constraints affect the cyclical behavior of productivity-enhancing investment and thereby … volatility and growth. We first develop a simple growth model where firms engage in two types of investment: a short-term one and … a long-term productivity-enhancing one. Because it takes longer to complete, long-term investment has a relatively less …

We decompose aggregate saving and investment into its public and private components and then document a variety of … "stylized facts" associated with saving and investment rates of a sample of 15 countries over the period 1975-1989. In order to … account for both the large cross country correlation between aggregate saving and investment rates and the very negative cross …

investment in India. Two robust conclusions emerge from the estimation of the investment function by ARDL approach. First, the … response of private investment with respect to the relative cost of capital has increased at least 4.6 times after the …

account for investment volatilities, leading to Minsky’s insight into financial instability …

economies. This study sheds new light on this question by examining the private investment outcomes of workers' remittance flows … to some selected Sub-Saharan African countries. The hypothesized link between workers' remittances and private investment … finding shows that remittance has a significant contemporaneous positive impact on private investment across the sampled …

' 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 …