investment problems have been formulated. …

This paper studies whether and how capital investment and economic freedom jointly endogenize economic growth. The … the crucial role of both domestic and foreign capital investment and economic freedom for rapid growth. Countries that … improve economic freedom and that bolster capital investment tend to experience faster growth. The domestic investment rate …

In this paper we empirically investigate whether sectoral business investment fluctuations in the U.K. are due to … aggregate or sector-specific innovations. Using quarterly business investment data for ten industrial sectors over 1978-2000, we …

- income countries for the period 1980-2002 and then project investment needs in these sectors until 2010. Our projections …

sector this paper shows that investment incentives may vary depending on the applied auction scheme. The model is designed as … a two stage game, where the franchisee decides about investment on the first and competes with a potential market … entrant on the second stage. Investment tends to be higher in sealed bid auctions than in an English auction, since the …

economic variable and has turned on the microeconomic and macroeconomic consequences of investment irreversibilities. Thus the … other interesting findings, at the microeconomic level it turns out that the de-mand for replacement investment is not … cannot obtain consistent aggregates of capital stock and replacement investment. …

SAVING DOES NOT EQUAL INVESTMENT John Maynard Keynes confused economists and politicians all over the world when he … wrote, “Saving is necessary to equal investment” together with a few equations to confirm his idea and finally concluding … that S = I. There have been repeated discussions about how saving can equal investment, accidentally or with certainty. We …

incorporate this idea into investment theory and examine its influence on a firm's growth rate. Two assumptions are emphasized: an … agent cannot optimize more than one input at a time, and there is interaction among inputs. Each investment is lumpy, but …