The authors construct a historical database of public investment (both total and broken down into its main components) for the period 1925 to 1981 in order to measure its impact on economic activity. Given the possible presence of crowding-out effects between public investment and private...

Infolge der COVID-19-Pandemie befindet sich Deutschland in einer Rezession, in der die gesamtwirtschaftliche Investitionstätigkeit deutlich zurückgegangen ist. Die Bundesregierung hat Anfang Juni ein Konjunkturprogramm beschlossen, welches zu einem Teil auch investive Maßnahmen vorsieht, die...

Can economic growth continue without degrading the quality of the environment? This question has led to a lot of inconclusive findings among researchers. This study examines the impact of greenfield investment, human capital, economic activities, and the role of institutions on the environment...

The paper takes the Leibnitz Integral Rule (LIR) under variable integration limits and demonstrates how it can be applied to a business firm's dynamic problem of determining its optimum level of investment activity, when the longevity (life span) of the investment is itself a variable determined...

This paper presents new approaches to investigating economic growth and innovation activity as well as analyzing investment in R&D needs and efficiency in the context of contemporary challenges for European integration. Our research modeled the impact of R&D investment on GDP growth under broad...

This paper studies the investment decision by a monopolistic internet service provider (ISP) in different regulatory environments. We consider that the ISP could technically provide separate quality upgrades to two vertically differentiated content providers (CPs); therefore, it could...

India imports more from Africa than Africa does from India. A large share of Indian imports from Africa are oil and minerals. However, the India-Africa relations in food and agriculture are already important but have potentials for expansion. For complex reasons Africa had no transformation of...

The study analyses the relationships between capital dynamics, productivity, global value chains and foreign direct investment using panel data techniques. Among other results, we confirm the high importance of tangible and intangible ICT capital for productivity and GVC integration. We examine...