We study the relationship between corporate debt, corporate risk and firm-level investment, using a sample of 25 …,000 listed companies across 47 countries over the last two decades. We find higher leverage reduces investment but show the … leverage observed during the last decade and as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic, physical investment is expected to remain at …

persistent decline in investment. Moreover, the territorial dispute has led to persistent pessimism in these firms' expectations … about future sales, which can explain 60% of the overall decline in investment. …

Foreign direct investment (FDI) is often seen as a means to boost domestic investment and, hence, capital accumulation …. Yet, the empirical support for such a positive investment effect of FDI is inconclusive. A possible reason is that FDI is … often directed towards the financial sector, where capital investment tends to be low. In this paper, we first explore the …

This paper uses a yearly dataset of plant-level investment in Colombian firms during the period 1997 to 2007 to assess … significant correlation is found between the boom observed in investment and the adoption of the tax policy. However, the … tests. Overall, it is concluded that the tax stimulus analyzed was ineffective in promoting investment in Colombia. …