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determined wages. The novelty is to incorporate investment and capital decisions by firms. The subgame-perfect Nash equilibrium …
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We develop a model that examines the capital structure and investment decisions of regulated firms in a setting that …
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Business cycles reflect changes over time in the amount of trade between individuals. In this paper we show that incorporating explicitly intra-temporal gains from trade between individuals into a macroeconomic model can provide new insight into the potential mechanisms driving economic...
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us to reject this view. In fact, a net capital inflow made possible to meet the demand for investment boosting economic …
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This Paper documents four basic facts about investment goods and investment prices. First, investment has a very …, and transportation) are much less important for investment than for consumption. Third, the import content of investment …
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Several alterantive scenarios for the economic integration of East and West Germany are analysed. They all share an amphasis of the rile of migration and labor mobility in this process. The effects of congestion costs, rigid wages, human capital and heterogeneity of migrants, and endogenous...
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When new technologies become available, it is not only essential that firms have the correct investment incentives, but … often also that consumers make the proper usage decisions. This paper studies investment and usage in a shared ATM network …. Because all banks coordinate their ATM investment decisions, there is no strategic but only a pure cost-saving incentive to …
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the provision of long-term finance. This approach suggests that the separation between the analysis of investment and that …
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incentives for investment in rolling stock, following the privatization of British Rail. Theoretical predictions are tested … incentives for delayed investment. Investing just before the end of the franchise enhances the incumbent’s probability of having …
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This Paper investigates the empirical relationship between uncertainty and investment dynamics. This is motivated by … the real options literature, which suggests a weaker response of investment to demand shocks at higher levels of … can be detected as a smaller impact of sales growth on investment for firms facing higher uncertainty. Using a stock …
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