the United States called Opportunity Zones (OZs). The goal of this provision was to spur private investment in OZs in … the impact of OZs on commercial investment and economic activity. Using data on the universe of all significant commercial … investments in the United States, we find that OZ selection led to practically no increase in investment in OZs. These findings …

developing countries see insufficient investment in projects that would reallocate labor towards better jobs. The concept of JLEs … investment. This paper shows that the optimal way to allocate subsidies to offset JLEs is through a competitive bidding process …

This paper estimates the direct effects of investment tax credits on firms' production behavior and the additional …

This paper estimates the causal effect of corporate tax hikes on firm investment based on more than 1,400 local tax … changes. By observing planned and realized investment volumes in a representative sample of German manufacturing firms, we can … study how tax hikes induce firms to revise their investment decisions. On average, the share of firms that invest less than …

remain - and the Covid-19 shock may have exacerbated them. This report analyses European firms' investment in training over … the last six years examining trends, factors supporting training investment as well as the impact of the Covid-19 shock …. We base the empirical analysis on a unique dataset, the European Investment Bank's Investment Survey (EIBIS), which …

of the minimum wage on human capital investment rates and no overall effects on fixed capital investment rates. When …

In this paper, we investigate the effect of real estate prices on productive investment. We build a simple theoretical … framework of firms' investment with credit rationing and real estate collateral. We show that real estate prices affect firms … identification of the second channel allows for heterogeneous effects of real estate prices on investment across firms. We test our …

We identify regional public investment priorities by studying the development of the water pipe system in the largest …-capita length of the network is 30%. Local public investment priorities at the voivodeship level, potentially related to effective …

The flow of foreign direct investment (FDI) has increased dramatically in the last two decades. However, the … location and level of their development. The current regional investment law, the weaknesses and strengths of the law and … investigated. Finally, we emphasize the need for the KRG to further promote investment in infrastructure and to impact economic …