Which types of governance indicators matter the most for private investment? This short paper answers the question by examining the impact of specific governance indicators on private investment in a cross-section of developing economies. Results indicate that an effective government that includes competent and independent civil service and credible governmental policies are positively associat...

Introducing private capital into the public transport system for its sustainable development has been increasing around the world. However, previous research ignores emissions and energy consumption impacts, which are important for private capital investment policy-making. To address this problem, the system dynamic (SD) approach was used to quantitatively analyze the cumulative effects of diff...

During the 1980s, the need for reduction of scal deecits lead many LDC governments to cut public investment, impose import restrictions and tighten credit. In this paper we examine the eeect of public policies on private investment in a number of LDCs, to assess whether public investment acted as a catalyst or competed for scarce resources. In order to analyze whether there are diierences among...

Private foreign capital, whose presence in Indian industry was long regarded with concern and suspicion, is now touted as a panacea for India’s economic problems. This paper compares the relative performance of domestic and foreign-controlled firms in India, and evaluates the contribution of foreign investment over the last five decades. We assess the impact of government policy towards foreign...

Only recently the general assumption of a negative investment-uncertainty relationship has been questioned in the literature and some examples of a nonmonotonic investment-uncertainty relationship have been found. By analyzing the influence of uncertainty on the probability to invest in a given time we show that the non-monotonicity of this relationship is not an exemption but the rule. Further...

Today, small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) play a key role in both developing and developed economies. However, the uncertainty of macroeconomic indicators, such as economic growth, may affect financing and investment of the SMEs in an economy. The present study explores the effect of the economic growth rate uncertainty on financing SMEs in Iran. To this end, the study has applied the Br...

Hurricane Katrina did massive damage because New Orleans and the Gulf Coast were not appropriately protected. Wherever natural disasters threaten, the government – in its traditional role as public goods provider – must decide what level of protection to provide to an area. It does so by purchasing protective capital, such as levees for a low-lying city. (“Protection” also consists of not impos...

one of the present phenomena that virtually explain weaknesses in financial systems of different countries is financial repression. financial repression encompasses the different interferences of governments in financial markets through determining the ceiling interest on bank deposits, high rates of legal reserves, and the government’s interference in distribution of bank credits,which prevent...