affiliation of the future governor is a source of political risk to firms considering business investment. More importantly, the …We estimate the effect of electorally induced policy uncertainty on investment in the manufacturing sector. Because …, and because the policies relevant to business investment vary systematically by party, uncertainty over the partisan …

rate of profit and its components - profit share, capacity utilization rate, and capacity-capital ratio - on investment …. Our results show that: (a) the rate of profit has both short and long run positive impacts on investment; (b) the profit … contemporaneous positive impact on investment. …

, profitability, investment and growth, based on China's manufacturing firm-level dataset over the period 1998-2007. First, we find …, the profitability-growth relationship is mediated via investment. Firm's contemporaneous and lagged profitabilities …, and account for 15%-20% of the variance in firms' growth rates. The direct relation between profitability and firm growth …

, profitability, investment and growth, based on China's manufacturing firm-level dataset over the period 1998 - 2007. First, we find …, the profitability-growth relationship is mediated via investment. Firm's contemporaneous and lagged profitabilities …, and account for 15% - 20% of the variance in firms' growth rates. The direct relation between profitability and firm …

, profitability, investment and growth, based on China's manufacturing firm-level dataset over the period 1998-2007. First, we find …, the profitability-growth relationship is mediated via investment. Firm's contemporaneous and lagged profitabilities …, and account for 15%-20% of the variance in firms' growth rates. The direct relation between profitability and firm growth …

investment from retained profits to provide a model of investment with innovation, which is applied to data from Australian …

theory was not supported. However, allowing financial constraints regimes in pecking order equation improved the fit of the …

analysis further identifies sources of financing in these subsectors and discusses future investment and financing challenges …

If the relation between investment and economic growth is well established in the macroeconomic literature, the … linking investment and firm performance in the French and Italian manufacturing industries. It does so by putting forth a … novel methodology to identify investment spikes that corrects for size dependence. While maintaining the desired properties …