This paper analyses the determinants of the investment decision by focusing on the firms subjective judgments about the … impact of some economic factors. This work uses data from the INSEEs business surveys on investment in the industry, over the … about factors. That is why we estimate the relationship between opinions about each factor effect and expected investment …

future treatment options if resistant viral strains develop. In order to take into account irreversibility and inertia …

Investment of French firms remained weak in the first part of the 90's, after allowing for the sluggish economic growth … fluctuations. We first describe the evolution of investment using a large panel of French firms, distinguishing the size and the … industry. We afterwards estimate an investment equation which enables us to check whether these firms were subject to financial …

to the relation between domestic saving and investment. A key element of the presented analysis is whether world capital … mobility is high enough to hold a condition that the relation between the domestic saving and investment in a country could … as well as by the analysis of saving and investment distinguishing the set of developed, poor, and transition countries …

to U.S. domestic investment data illustrates the method. Dans cet article, nous proposons des procédures d …

It is widely recognized that machinery and equipment investment intensity is less in Canada than in the United States …. What is less well know is that it is information and communications technology (ICT) investment that largely accounts for … this gap. The author documents trends in ICT investment in both Canada and the United States and attempts to explain why …

We start out from the hypothesis that limited government leads to low uncertainty and low transaction costs. If … political institutions affect the degree of uncertainty and transaction costs, we formally show they should affect the steady … state level of income per capita. The impact of uncertainty and transaction costs on income per capita is formalized in a …

synthesis of the main sources of uncertainty as well as an illustration of their effects within an analytical framework. In … particular, it shows that depending on the type of uncertainty and the choice of the selected loss function, the recommendations …