Recent literature has shown that corporate indebtedness affects firm-level investment behavior but not necessarily … substitute depressed investment by their financially constrained competitors. The increase in investment, primarily driven by … equilibrium effects are unambiguously countercyclical because the increase in investment by unconstrained firms does not crowd out …

macroeconomic return of adaptation investment to natural disasters (NDs) and the impact of climate change. While the model follows … public finances. It also shows that adaptation investment has large returns in terms of private investment, employment …

The recovery of private investment in Italy has lagged its euro area peers over the past decade. This paper examines … capacity to invest. Empirical analysis provides evidence for the impact of wages on investment at the sectoral and firm levels …. Sectoral wage growth seems unrelated to sectoral productivity growth, but is negatively associated with investment. Firm …

vulnerable to financial frictions. By sheltering intangible investment from financial shocks, counter-cyclical macroeconomic … policy through the intangible investment channel, and its complementarity with pro-competition product market deregulation …

that depreciations boost profits, investment, and sales of firms that are more financially-constrained and have higher … reducing real wages, thereby spurring investment. We show that these effects on firm performance are enduring, including in the …

result of low investment. Latin America is poorer because of lower human capital levels and lower TFP-not because of a lower … business climate indicators converge rapidly. Poor countries without those attributes do not. We show that low investment is …

We introduce a new suite of macroeconomic models that extend and complement the Debt, Investment, and Growth (DIG …'s properties by analyzing the growth, debt, and distributional consequences of big-push public investment programs with different … mixes of investment in human capital and infrastructure. We show that investment in human capital is much more effective …

We analyze the impact of trade policy uncertainty on investment in the euro area. Our identification strategy assumes … that countries that are relatively more dependent on global trade networks exhibit a higher sensitivity of investment with … respect to trade uncertainty. We find that the investment-to-GDP ratio is on average 0.8 percentage points lower for five …

In this paper I apply firm-level analysis to examine how the Brexit process has affected business investment in the UK … had a considerable and statistically significant negative impact on firm investment in the UK after the referendum. At the … same time, the post-referendum sterling depreciation has likely contributed positively to investment expenditure by more …