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-1970), and information technology (1971-), and That organization capital tends to grow fastest during the second half of a …
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explanations are: 1. Productivity slowed down because the implementation of information technologies was both costly and slow. 2 …
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I estimate a model in which new technology entails random adjustment costs. Rapid adjustments may cause productivity slowdowns. These slowdowns last longer when retooling is costly. The model explains why growth-rate disasters are more likely than miracles, and why volatility of growth relates...
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The management of the exchange rate is possible only if the government pursues a monetary-fiscal policy mix which is consistent with its exchange rate targets. In this paper with uncertainty concerning the length of individual life the real consequences of exchange rate management depend on the...
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The collapse of a fixed exchange rate is typically marked by a sudden balance-of-payments crisis in which"speculators" fleeing from the domestic currency acquire a large portion of the central bank's foreign exchange holdings.Faced with such an attack, the central bank often withdraws...
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The paper develops a model of exchange-rate and current-account determination for a small economy peopled by infinitely lived, utility-maximizing households. In this setting, a central-bank purchase of foreign exchange has no real effects when central-bank foreign reserves earn interest at the...
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This paper investigates the long- and short-run neutrality of open-market monetary policy in a world of fixed exchange rates and imperfect substitutability between bonds denominated in different currencies. Using an illustrative portfolio-balance model, it shows that when the public discounts...
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Value stocks have higher exposure to innovations in the nominal bond risk premium, which measures the markets' perception of cyclical variation in future output growth, than growth stocks. The ICAPM then predicts a value risk premium provided that good news about future output lowers the...
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largest literatures in finance. One candidate explanation is that funds process information about future asset values and use … that information to invest in high-valued assets. But formal theories are scarce because information choice models with … attention allocation model that uses the state of the business cycle to predict information choices, which in turn, predict …
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If an investor wants to form a portfolio of risky assets and can exert effort to collect information on the future … value of these assets before he invests, which assets should he learn about? The best assets to acquire information about … are ones the investor expects to hold. But the assets the investor holds depend on the information he observes. We build a …
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