balancing investment incentives with allocative efficiency and competition objectives. Intermediate regulation is compatible … regulation and efficient investment is thus in doubt. Incentive regulation for regular infrastructure investments therefore needs …

The ifo Investment Survey asks firms in the German manufacturing sector about the importance of sales, technological … factors, finance, return expectations, and macroeconomic policy for their investment activity in a given year. We show that … these subjective investment determinants 1) capture economically what their labels suggest, and 2) have strong explanatory …

, investment, and the distribution of funds for consumption, particularly if the windfall is both anticipated and temporary. We … optimal policy involves cutting distortionary taxation in order to raise investment and wages; and where Ricardian consumers … investment in infrastructure …

We present a comparable set of results on the monetary transmission channels on firm investment for the four largest … channel. For each of those countries, we estimate neoclassical investment relationships, explaining investment by its user … cost, sales and cash flow. We find investment to be sensitive to user cost changes in all those four countries. This …

The paper explores the investment behaviour of German firms in the context of the Q-approach, which plays a dominant … role in empirical investment research. The analysis is based on the Deutsche Bundesbank's corporate balance sheet … by Gilchrist and Himmelberg. We compare the results from two different estimation techniques for dynamic investment …

The interpretation of the significant relation between business investment spending and cash flow has been … controversial. A large body of research has found that investment/cash flow sensitivities are higher for financially constrained … with the Kaplan and Zingales critique, investment/cash flow sensitivities are lower for financially constrained firms. This …