This paper compares the relationship between growth, investment and financing of the contracting operations with that … changes in the levels of capital investment and the sources and uses of finance of these two activities during a period of … turnover with negligible recourse to additional capital investment but in fact generated surplus funds which could be diverted …

This article analyses the effects of the real value of the dollar on investment in US domestic manufacturing using … previous study. The exchange rate affects investment mainly, although not exclusively, through the channel of financial or … manufacturing investment would have been 61% higher and the capital stock would have been 17% higher in 2004 if the dollar had not …

Public investment constitutes one of the main instruments of regional policies. The existence of a direct link between … infrastructure and regional income per capita is usually accepted. Literature also describes a positive effect of public investment … productive and social public investment (especially in education) on private investment. The spillover effects generated by the …

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 …

Recent theoretical developments relating to investment under uncertainty have highlighted the importance of … irreversibility for the timing of investment expenditures and their expected returns. This has subsequently stimulated a growing … empirical literature which examines uncertainty and threshold effects of investment behaviour. This paper presents a review of …

We estimate the effect of demand and price uncertainty on firms’ investment decisions from a panel of manufacturing … investment, while price uncertainty is insignificant. This is consistent with the behavior of monopolistic firms with … irreversible capital (Caballero, 1991). Further, firms revise their investment plans very little. They may do so in response to new …

, international trade, international investment, international antitrust, human rights law, conflicts of law, and the international …

The interpretation of the correlation between cash flow and investment is highly controversial. Some argue that it is … caused by financial constraints, others by the correlation between cash flow and investment opportunities that are not … opportunities available only to insiders and thus not included in Q. When this variable is added in investment regressions, the …

There is growing interest in economic uncertainty and its long run impact on investment. In previous work the authors … established clear evidence of the negative impact of exchange rate uncertainty on investment in the G7, measured using a GARCH … approach, and Pooled Mean Group Panel Estimation. In this paper we assess the impact on investment of temporary and permanent …