Thinking about it, it sounds vaguely like the "Market for Lemons" (information asymmetry) problem: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Market_for_Lemons
In that there are some people doing good things there, some people selling snake oil, and a lot of doubts in between, it would certainly cause firms to invest less due to doubts that they'd be getting anything worthwhile.
Perhaps. It's just off the top of my head.
Thinking about it, it sounds vaguely like the "Market for Lemons" (information asymmetry) problem: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Market_for_Lemons
In that there are some people doing good things there, some people selling snake oil, and a lot of doubts in between, it would certainly cause firms to invest less due to doubts that they'd be getting anything worthwhile.
Perhaps. It's just off the top of my head.