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By assuming Cobb-Douglas production technology, many well-known imperfectly competitive macroeconomic models of the labour market (e.g. Layard, Nickell and Jackman, 1991) imply that equilibrium unemployment is independent of the capital stock. This paper introduces a new notion of capacity into...
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The paper presents a monetary policy model with an endogenous capital stock when a backward looking element in wage setting causes inflation persistence. We analyse how the endogeneity of the capital stock changes the macroeconomic dynamics with which policy interacts and its implications for...
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linkages between investment in fixed and working capital and financing constraints.  We find that those firms characterized by … high working capital display high sensitivities of investment in working capital to cash flow (WKS) and low sensitivities … of investment in fixed capital to cash flow (FKS).  We then construct and analyze firm-level FKS and WKS measures and …
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This paper extends the model of Fielding (1999), which is designed to explain changes in investment in South Africa … the political factors, but these factors do explain some of the variation in investment over time. …
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We present evidence that an increase in investment as a share of GDP predicts a higher growth rate of output per worker … coefficients. They are robust to model specifications and estimation methods. The evidence that investment has a long-run effect on …
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Much recent monetary policy literature has searched for structural models suitable for policy analysis that are both based on optimising microfoundations and consistent with the data, especially observed persistence in inflation and output. Few models do well on both criteria. We derive an...
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growth was high investment, and that this high investment was made possible by certain institutions that were particularly … well suited to reconstruction and growth. On the domestic side, these institutions led to high investment rates and …
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Optimal monetary policy is sensitive to the Phillips curve specification used to represent the dynamics of inflation and output. Most recent literature has used a new Keynesian Phillips Curve based on Calvo pricing. This paper shows that this workhorse model is not robust to relatively minor...
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private investment as a share of GDP in a sample of 72 developing countries.  Our empirical results suggest important … differences between oil and non-oil resources.  While revenue from oil exports tends to increase private (and public) investment … investment determinants, such as measures of the quality of institutions, political instability or macroeconomic volatility. …
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We analyze the microfoundations of the Phillips curve and the close links between that relationship and results concerning optimal monetary policy, stabilisation bias and monetary policy delegation. Most recent literature has used a New Keynesian Phillips Curve based on Calvo pricing, often with...
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