This paper documents the recent slowdown in investment in India and explores its underlying causes. The sharp … investment deceleration has sparked an intense debate about the role of interest rates, as well as business confidence and … economic policy uncertainty. Our results suggest that while explaining aggregate investment activity better than nominal …

buffers. They also expanded abroad while the pace of corporate investment moderated. Regarding the latter, model estimates on … aggregate corporate investment over the post bubble period show that expectation about future profitability, in particular …

investment, and fiscal balances, from an empirical perspective. Based on empirical findings-particularly regarding inflation …

-sustaining growth based on private consumption and investment. This paper finds that Japanese nonfinancial firms have accumulated cash … at the expense of investment and dividends, hampering this transition. The evidence suggests that cash accumulation is … plays only a limited role. These firms have cash holdings available for investment of about 5 percent of GDP. Policy options …

Investment across the euro area remains below its pre-crisis level. Its performance has been weaker than in most …, corporate leverage, and uncertainty. There is a considerable cross country heterogeneity in terms of both investment dymanics … and its determinants. Based on the findings of this paper, investment is expected to pick up as the recovery strengthens …

We document that (i) although private investment growth in emerging markets has decelerated in recent years, it came … down from cyclical highs and remains close to pre-crisis trends; and (ii) investment-to-output ratios generally remain … close to or above historical averages. We show that investment is positively related to expect future profitability, cash …

This paper studies the fiscal implications for the Beninese economy of scaling up of public investment when the …