Contributions are made by this paper in three areas, methodological, data creation, and empirical. The methodological section finds that, while structural model building exercises may be useful in suggesting lists of variables that may play an explanatory role in investment equations, they...

Using data from the United Nations Comparison Project and the Penn World Table, we find that machinery and equipment investment has a strong association with growth: over l9&)?l95 each percent of GDP invested in equipment is associated with an increase in GDP growth of 1/3 a percentage point per...

Japan has seen episodes in which boom and bust in land prices is accompanied by boom and bust in business fixed investment. We develop a model that includes land in the production function. We show that in this model movements in land prices will be associated with movements of the capital stock...

This research provides new evidence on financing constraints on corporate fixed investment by emphasizing the role of cash holdings as a precautionary source of funds. Applying GMM estimates to a sample of 106 Jordanian firms, the results suggest that firms follow trade-off theory in financing...

This paper examines capital adjustment patterns using two large and largely novel data sets from the manufacturing sectors of Colombia and Mexico. The findings show that investment patterns in these countries resemble those reported for the United States to a surprising extent. Capital...

Recent research on business investment decisions suggests that real investment in plant and equipment is quite sensitive to changes in the user cost of capital, pointing to the possibility that long-run changes in tax policy may have a significant impact on an economy's capital stock. Indeed,...

In 2019, growth rates in fixed investments amounted to 1.7 percent relative to the previous year, while the corresponding indicator a year earlier reached the level of 5.4 percent. Despite certain success in the economic recovery growth in the previous two years, the dynamics of main components...

Using panel data models and two research sub-samples composed of smaller and larger VC-backed, this study seeks to analyze the relationship between investment and internal cash flows. The results indicate that the investment sensitivity to internal cash flows is greater in larger than in the...

General purpose technologies (GPTs) such as AI enable and require significant complementary investments, including business process redesign, co-invention of new products and business models, and investments in human capital. These complementary investments are often intangible and poorly...

Macroeconomic situation in 2017–2018 was marked by the outstripping growth rates of fixed investments relative to GDP performance and final consumption of households. In 2018, amid fixed investments increase by 4.3 percent, GDP growth constituted 2.3 percent relative to the corresponding...

Using panel data models and two research sub-samples composed of smaller and larger VC-backed, this study seeks to analyze the relationship between investment and internal cash flows. The results indicate that the investment sensitivity to internal cash flows is greater in larger than in the...

Der auf der Geschäftslage und den Geschäftserwartungen der Leasinggesellschaften basierende Investitionsindikator, den das ifo Institut und der Bundesverband Deutscher Leasing-Unternehmen gemeinsam ermitteln, signalisiert für das Jahr 2019 einen Anstieg der Ausrüstungsinvestitionen von...

L'immobilier d'entreprise désigne un métier : celui des professionnels détenant des biens immobiliers afin de les louer et en tirer un revenu. Ce secteur de l'économie offre également aux particuliers de nombreuses opportunités : acquisition de parts ou actions de SCPI, OPCI ou SIIC ou...

The macroeconomic aspect of the investment model is determined by dynamics and structure of major indexes of the real sector and by monetary and financial markets as well as by characteristics of reproduction and usage of principal factors of production economy wide by types of economic...

After three-year contraction, fixed investments in 2017 moved up by 4.4%. At the same time, Rosstat revised downwards 2016 data – fixed investment contraction constituted merely 0.2% (previously 0.9%)

General purpose technologies (GPTs) such as AI enable and require significant complementary investments, including co-invention of new processes, products, business models and human capital. These complementary investments are often intangible and poorly measured in the national accounts, even...

General purpose technologies (GPTs) such as AI enable and require significant complementary investments, including co-invention of new processes, products, business models and human capital. These complementary investments are often intangible and poorly measured in the national accounts, even...

The period of 2014–2016 saw mixed investment dynamics driven by the factors and conditions for (1) recovery from the crisis of 2009–2012 and (2) for Russian economy's adaptation amid restricted access to global capital markets. Russia's investment crisis hit a peak in H1 2009, and fixed...

On 15–16 December 2016, the Bank of England, the Centre for Economic Policy Research, the Centre for Macroeconomics and the Brevan Howard Centre held a joint workshop on ‘Finance, investment and productivity'. This workshop brought together leading researchers and policymakers to share views...

링크를 클릭하시면, 이 보고서의 한국어 버전을 보실 수 있습니다: 'http://ssrn.com/abstract=2951562' http://ssrn.com/abstract=2951562■ Equipment investment showed improvements thanks to the recent boom in a few sectors such as semiconductors. But, the average capacity...

In H1 2016, business fixed investment stood at 95.7% against the corresponding period of the previous year. Reduction in the scale of investment and construction activity is due to pattern of adaptability of economic entities to the current situation in the economy. The segment of large and...

The Russian economy entered a period of investment pause in 2013. In terms of financial resources available for the investment process, it is characterized by substantial increase in enterprise self-financing for investment projects with cutbacks in financing through external borrowing. The...

We estimate the effect of temporary tax incentives on equipment investment using shifts in accelerated depreciation. Analyzing data for over 120,000 firms, we present three findings. First, bonus depreciation raised investment in eligible capital relative to ineligible capital by 10.4% between...

We estimate the effect of temporary tax incentives on equipment investment using shifts in accelerated depreciation. Analyzing data for over 120,000 firms, we present three findings. First, bonus depreciation raised investment in eligible capital relative to ineligible capital by 10.4% between...

Aim of the research is to provide the theoretical backgrounds for significance of fixed investments, to estimate the changes of fixed investment growth and structure and to explore the efficiency of fixed investments and it impact on Lithuania economy. The research show that the level of...

This note considers a puzzle: why has information technology (IT) equipment investment in the National income and Product Accounts (NIPAs) been so weak since 2007 at the same time that financial reports indicate massive increases in capital expenditures by IT service companies?

This paper examines the prices for communications equipment, an important component of information technology. Unlike prices for computers which officially fall sharply every year, the official prices for communications equipment have barely budged over the past decade. This paper combines...

Важнейшей характеристикой регионального развития являются тенденции и направленность протекания инвестиционных процессов. В современных условиях...

В статье проведен анализ влияния потенциала финансовых посредников на обеспечение экономического развития инвестиционными ресурсами. Проанализировано...

Der Report analysiert die Entwicklung der privaten Investitionen in Deutschland. Im Vergleich zum Euroraum hat sich in Deutschland seit 2000 eine große Investitionslücke gebildet. Diese Lücke ist vor allem auf den starken Rückgang der Bauinvestitionen zurückzuführen, während sich die...

Fixed investment in real terms stood at 97.42% in the period of January to July 2014 compared to the corresponding period in 2013. The structure of sources of financing saw an upward trend towards the formation of a bigger share of equity at enterprises as the share of federal budget resources...

This paper uses the "National Tax Survey" enterprise data to assess the impact of China's nationwide VAT reform of 2009 on enterprise fixed-asset investment and employment. The main finding of our research is that the reform significantly increased business investment in fixed assets, but had no...