Investment in OECD Countries: A Primer

Analysis of Investment in Knowledge inside OECD Countries

Knowledge is the foundation for growth and development. Investment in knowledge improves new method for originate knowledge society and knowledge economy. Investment in knowledge embraces expenditure on education and R&D and software. Measuring of investment in knowledge is characteristically complicated. We examine the influence of investment in knowledge in multifactor productivity growth and...

Determinants of Foreign Direct Investment of OECD Countries 1991 - 2001

Capital Mobility in OECD Countries: A Multi-Level Factor Approach to Saving–Investment Correlations

While a high saving–investment correlation is one of the most robust empirical regularities in international economics, there has been debate about whether it can be interpreted as evidence of barriers to international capital flows. When global and country-specific shocks shift saving and investment in the same direction, the high saving–investment association may be observed even in perfectly...

Evidence from OECD Countries

In this paper we use a representative consumer model to analyse the equilibrium relation between the transitory deviations from the common trend among consumption, aggregate wealth, and labour income, cay, and focus on the implications for both stock returns and housing returns. The evidence based on data for 15 OECD countries shows that when agents expect future stock returns to be higher, the...

Investment in Energy Efficiency, Adoption of Renewable Energy and Household Behaviour: Evidence from OECD countries

There exist some possible synergies between energy efficiency measures and renewable energy adoption in the sense that the former reduces the energy demand so that the latter can begin to cut future GHG emissions with a high potential in residential sector. In this residential sector, many works have been done either on demand for clean energy or on investment in energy efficiency, but to our k...