exports on domestic demand for investment. In the last decade China has increased its dependence on external demand … rest of emerging Asia. Since 2001 investment expenditures have represented a key driver of Chinese GDP growth; as a very … large share of activity in the manufacturing sector is export oriented, we expect fixed capital investment in this sector to …

paper empirically assesses the impact of debt relief on growth and investment by examining two potential mechanisms. The … and 2004, this study shows that debt relief did not affect growth directly or through capital investment. …

The paper starts with a discussion of a conceptual model of location factors in U.S. manufacturing investment at the … state level. The purpose of the paper is to test the relative importance of growth factors influencing investment and …, infrastructure, and fiscal policy. A better understanding of investment flows in the manufacturing sector will help determine how …

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 for a sample of 15 countries over the period 1975--1989. In order … account for both the large cross country correlation between aggregate saving and investment rates and the very negative cross …

cyclical behavior of aggregate fixed investment, variable capital investment, and output in the presence of persistent … fixed capital investment is reinforced by the financing constraint. Second, the effect of the financing constraint on … variable capital investment is reinforced by the irreversibility constraint. Finally, the interaction between the two …