secondary role in the investment process as much as it intervenes only as control ex ante of a ratification phase. So if it is … decision and control systems, relating to the investment projects. For this, we highlighted the role of the investment’s nature …

Using plant-level data from Chile and the U.S., we show that investment spikes are highly pro-cyclical, so much so that … changes in the number of establishments undergoing investment spikes (the “extensive margin”) account for the bulk of … variation in aggregate investment. The number of establishments undergoing investment spikes also has independent predictive …

monetary policy on investment. We argue that the structure of capital, particularly the type of the relation between the … industrial and the financial sector determines, to an extent, the way that finance affects investment. The domain in which this … that their interaction, which is institutionally and historically defined, acts as a main source of influence on investment …

Expected returns and risk assessment are important issues when evaluating capital investment projects. We use VARX …

This paper reports estimation of investment equations for two classes of fixed assets: plant & machinery and building … these assets to test the power of real options theory to explain investment under uncertainty. Additionally, the paper uses … a specially constructed industry-specific measure of irreversibility for plant and machinery investment to test for real …

In this paper we re-examine the long standing and puzzling correlation between national savings and investment in … relationship in the idiosyncratic components of savings and investment. We also find that the global components in savings and …