The macroeconomic aspect of the investment model is determined by dynamics and structure of major indexes of the real sector and by monetary and financial markets as well as by characteristics of reproduction and usage of principal factors of production economy wide by types of economic...

The study investigated the dynamic interaction between savings, investment and economic growth in Nigeria within the period 1981 to 2014, using annual time series data obtained from the World Bank Development Indicator (WDI). The study employed the impulse response function (IRF) and the...

In H1 2016, business fixed investment stood at 95.7% against the corresponding period of the previous year. Reduction in the scale of investment and construction activity is due to pattern of adaptability of economic entities to the current situation in the economy. The segment of large and...

The Russian economy entered a period of investment pause in 2013. In terms of financial resources available for the investment process, it is characterized by substantial increase in enterprise self-financing for investment projects with cutbacks in financing through external borrowing. The...

Using cross-country panel data, we find evidence that ICT development has a positive impact on output, physical capital accumulation, and productivity growth although the impact on the latter is higher. The higher impacts of mobile cellular and the Internet on middle/low-income countries' output...

This paper extends Piketty's analysis of the wealth-income ratio used as a proxy for wealth inequality, to allow for innovation. Drawing on a Schumpeterian (R&D-based) growth model that incorporates both tangible and intangible capital and using historical data for 21 OECD countries, we find the...

The Inada (1963) conditions constitute a defining property of the neoclassical production function with capital and labor as arguments. Are these conditions justifiable on economic grounds? Yes, they are: we show that a production function with positive, yet diminishing marginal products and...

Uzawaś steady-state growth theorem (Uzawa (1961)) is generalized to a neoclassical economy that uses current output, e. g., to create technical progress or to manufacture intermediates. The difference between aggregate final-good production and these resources is referred to as net output. The...

El crecimiento económico colombiano durante los últimos veinte años ha coincidido con un recrudecimiento de los niveles de violenciaen el país. Una alternativa para disminuir los niveles de violencia ha sido el aumento del Gasto en Defensa y Seguridad (GDS), políticaque no sólo está...

In the past decade, nearly 20 studies have found a strong, persistent pattern in surveys and behavioral experiments from over 40 countries: individual exposure to war violence tends to increase social cooperation at the local level, including community participation and prosocial behavior. Thus...