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Since 2001, OECD corporate net lending has risen sharply. This paper examines the main forces at play behind this run-up and provides some insight into whether and how they might possibly unwind in the future, a process that may already be underway. It shows in particular that, the increase is...
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While the recent increase in foreign direct investment (FDI) to African countries is a welcome development, the … the impact of FDI on development is through its effects on domestic factor markets, especially domestic investment and … employment. In this context, this study analyses the two-way linkages between FDI and domestic investment in Sub-Saharan Africa …
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implications for the analysis of investment demand and its responsiveness to tax policy. We estimate the structural parameters of a … model in which domestic and foreign investment interact in two important ways. First, the MNC's production technology allows … investment in one locaton may be affected by investment in other locations. We estimate the model using firm-level panel data …
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Conventional wisdom has it that increasing price or exchange rate uncertainty will depress investment. Using the Dixit … uncertainty leads to more investment. It depends first on the risk of being stuck with (ex-post) unwanted investments, then on the … increase or decrease investment; and also to identify which types of industries would gain, and which would suffer, from a move …
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Low aggregate investment in Finland has been argued to merely reflect structural change to an innovation economy, with … high R&D levels adequately compensating for reduced physical investment. This paper briefly reviews the issues and … discusses the severity and persistence of the shortage. Immaterialization of investment clearly plays a role and outward FDI …
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The investment procedure prescribes the stages and tests through which all investment projects must pass before being … paper, we intend to understand how investment procedures enable grand ideals regarding investment to be institutionalised … effect during the process of institutionalisation, through which grand investment ideals (e.g. competitiveness, value …
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on capital deepening and technical progress by examining the impact of regulations on investment (domestic and foreign …-competitive reforms tend to increase both investment and multifactor productivity and, through both these channels, they can lead to …
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In this paper we analyse the impact of policy uncertainty on foreign direct investment strategies. We also consider the …
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Feldstein-Horioka criterion. More precisely, we test the cross-correlation of savings and investment rates across European Union … the regional level. Furthermore, the testing of the relationship between savings and investment in consistent sub …
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