decline of 6.5 percent in investment among publicly traded oil and gas companies between 2015 and 2019, with European …. Results support the Neoclassical investment model, which predicts a pre-emptive cut in investment in reaction to downward … shifts in prospective demand, in contrast with the “green paradox” that predicts an increase in current investment to shift …

This paper studies private investment in India against the backdrop of a significant investment decline over the past … decade. We analyze the potential causes of weaker investment at the firm level, using both firm-level financial statements … and a novel dataset on firms' investment project decisions, and find that financial frictions have played a role in the …

This paper uses the financial crisis of 2008 as a natural experiment to demonstrate that when measuring investment … investment-cash flow sensitivity, which decreased substantially after the crisis when banks changed their expectations about the … value of assets on firms' balance sheets. This paper deepens our understanding of firms' investment behavior …

intangible intensity. We estimate our model using temporary investment tax incentive policies in the United States in the early … 2000s. When the q-model accounts for intangible assets, the estimated investment elasticity to tax incentives is generally …

This paper conducts a firm-level analysis of the effect of taxation on corporate investment patterns in member states … investment decisions acrosss ASEAN countries. Concerning the main variable of interest, we find that a moderate level of taxation … does not hinder business investment, but this effect turns negative as higher tax burden raises the user cost of capital …

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 …

We trace Japanese corporate investment across different types of firms over the past decades and estimate the main … determinants of investment. We find that there are differences in investment behavior between firms expanding abroad and those … operating mainly in domestic markets. On the back of a trend increase in production offshoring, investment by large companies …

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 …

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 …

We examine how firm and country heterogeneity shape the response of corporate investment in emerging markets to changes … the costs of external borrowing and (ii) a real options channel-reflecting firms' option values to delay investment. We … find evidence of the coexistence of both channels. Financially weaker firms reduce investment by more in response to higher …