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“Institutional and Structural Determinants of Investment Worldwide”

by Jamus Jerome Lim

Abstract

This paper considers institutional and structural factors associated with investment activity in a panel of up to 129 developed and developing countries. It introduces these factors to a standard neoclassical investment function for open economies, and find that financial development and institutional quality are reasonably robust determinants of cross-country capital formation, with latter displaying more stability in the sign and significance of its coefficient. Indeed, when endogeneity concerns are addressed more explicitly using external instruments, and both interactions and subsamples are considered, institutional quality tends to survive as the causal determinant of investment.

Keywords: Investment, financial development, institutional quality.

JEL Classi…cations: E22, E02, O16

The full article is available as a World Bank Policy Research Working Paper 6591.   Please also note that we have added it to the topic ‘Geography, Institutions, and Economic Growth‘ on the InsTED site.