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 …

This paper documents the recent slowdown in investment in India and explores its underlying causes. The sharp … investment deceleration has sparked an intense debate about the role of interest rates, as well as business confidence and … economic policy uncertainty. Our results suggest that while explaining aggregate investment activity better than nominal …

buffers. They also expanded abroad while the pace of corporate investment moderated. Regarding the latter, model estimates on … aggregate corporate investment over the post bubble period show that expectation about future profitability, in particular …

investment, and fiscal balances, from an empirical perspective. Based on empirical findings-particularly regarding inflation …

We document that (i) although private investment growth in emerging markets has decelerated in recent years, it came … down from cyclical highs and remains close to pre-crisis trends; and (ii) investment-to-output ratios generally remain … close to or above historical averages. We show that investment is positively related to expect future profitability, cash …

This paper studies the fiscal implications for the Beninese economy of scaling up of public investment when the …

reallocated from the private to the public sectors, reducing investment and deepening the recessions even further. To account for …. This implies that domestic debt purchases displace productive investment. The model shows that these purchases reduce …

asset accumulation appear to have contributed more to post-boom income than those devoted to domestic investment …

The literature on the investment technology of foreign versus domestic investors has inconclusive results. This paper …