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 …

This paper models investment/entry decisions in a competitive industry that is subject to a quantity control on an … permit or a production license). The paper shows that liberalizing the quantity control could reduce investment in the … industry under certain circumstances. Furthermore, the level of investment is quite different when licenses are tradable than …

Panel data on Ghanaian manufacturing firms are used to test predictions from models of irreversible investment under …, higher uncertainty raises the hurdle level that triggers investment, and uncertainty has a negative effect on investment … levels that is greater for firms with more irreversible investment …

Feldstein and Horioka (1980) argued that the correlation of saving and investment in a cross-section of countries may … investment should be cointegrated over time. Simulations show that the cross-section regressions used in the literature will …

improve the precision of macroeconomic forecasting, especially in areas with data constraints. This paper investigates whether … travel-related online search queries enhance accuracy in the forecasting of tourist arrivals to The Bahamas from the U.S. The …