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                                                            EIB Investment Report 2017/2018

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                                                              23 Nov 2017

                                                              DOI: 10.2867/48630

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                                                            The EIB Investment Report is the bank’s flagship research report, aiming to deepen our understanding of investment and investment financing in the EU. It presents and analyses the new 2017 release of the EIB Investment Survey (EIBIS) of businesses in the EU, which this year also includes a Europe-wide survey of municipal authorities.

                                                            Following a theme of “From recovery to sustainable growth”, it describes how the investment recovery in Europe continues to strengthen and become more broad-based, across countries, sectors and asset classes. Business investment is being driven by the improving outlook and efforts to keep pace with competitors, but there is still need to improve business environment.

                                                            This investment recovery is generally supported by good financing conditions for firms, but deleveraging remains a drag. EU firms continue to be net savers overall, suggesting that many firms are unwilling to invest despite a liquid financial position.

                                                            Nonetheless, with the improving economy there also emerge structural investment needs in innovation, skills, infrastructure and sustainability. The EU continues to fall behind global peers in terms of R&D spending, while other types of intangibles – software, training, organisational capital, etc. – prove to be just as important. Business environment has to improve further. Persistent financial fragmentation across the EU could slow convergence and reduce capacity to absorb shocks. This report indicates that there is a window of opportunity to address structural investment needs through both public and private investment, with targeted policy intervention to ease specific constraints.

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                                                            • EIB Investment Report 2019/2020: accelerating Europe's transformation
                                                            • EIB Investment Report 2019/2020 - Key Findings : accelerating Europe's transformation
                                                            • EIB Investment Report 2018/2019
                                                            • EIB Investment Report 2018/2019 - Key Findings
                                                            • EIB Investment Report 2017/2018 - Key Findings
                                                            • Investment and Investment Finance in Europe 2016
                                                            • Investing in competitiveness
                                                            • Investment and Investment Finance in Europe 2015
                                                            • Investment and Investment Finance in Europe
                                                            • Investment and growth in the time of climate change
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                                                            • EIB Papers Volume 16. n°1/2011
                                                            • Financing infrastructure - A review of the 2010 EIB Conference in Economics and Finance
                                                            • EIB Papers Volume 15. n°1/2010
                                                            • EIB Papers Volume 15. n°2/2010
                                                            • The knowledge economy in Europe, A review of the 2009 EIB Conference in Economics and Finance
                                                            • EIB Papers Volume 14. n°1/2009
                                                            • EIB Papers Volume 14. n°2/2009
                                                            • EIB Papers Volume 13. n°1/2008
                                                            • EIB Papers Volume 13. n°2/2008
                                                            • 2008 Annual Economic Report on Partner Countries
                                                            • 2007 Annual Economic Report on Partner Countries
                                                            • EIB Papers Volume 12. n°1/2007
                                                            • EIB Papers Volume 12. n°2/2007
                                                            • 2006 Annual Economic Report on Partner Countries
                                                            • EIB Papers Volume 11. n°1/2006
                                                            • EIB Papers Volume 11. n°2/2006
                                                            • 2005 Annual Economic Report on Partner Countries
                                                            • 2005 Annual Economic Report on Partner Countries
                                                            • EIB Papers Volume 10. n°1/2005
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                                                            • EIB Papers Volume 09. n°1/2004
                                                            • EIB Papers Volume 09. n°2/2004
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                                                            • EIB Papers Volume 08. n°2/2003
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                                                            • EIB Papers Volume 07. n°2/2002
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                                                            • EIB Papers Volume 06. n°1/2001
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