environmental performance – and shed light on the role of environmental investment. Data from Swedish industry between 2002 and 2008 …) efficient use of energy. A panel vector auto-regression (VAR) methodology is utilized to investigate the causal relationship … between the three dimensions of performance and environmental investment. Results show that energy efficiency and …

This paper highlights the importance of different investment motives and to what extend they affect the responsiveness … to corporate taxation. In particular, we discuss how to classify investment as non-related, horizontal, vertical and … this, we examine the effects of host-country corporate taxation on the volume of investment within related firms (i.e., the …

determinants of IT investment in a panel of EU countries. We first analyse the dynamics of IT investment expenditure in 15 European … panel data for five European economies over 1980-2001. We consider both aggregate IT investment, and investment in hardware …, medium and slow adopters. We then build an econometric equation of the determinants of IT investment to be estimated with …

In this paper the corporate investment decision under financial restrictions is investigated with Belgian firm data … from 1984 to 1992. An investment Euler equation is derived from a dynamic optimization model with debt ceilings and an … source of corporate investment in Belgium since 1986. The estimation results show the dependence of corporate investment on …

sample allows us to match exactly investment plans and investment realisations for each firm and so estimate a panel data …Business investment is a very important variable for short- and medium-term economic analysis, but it is volatile and … respondents who report “up” and “down”. As a consequence, neither the heterogeneity of individual responses nor the panel …