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been significant changes in saving and investment patterns across the world and imbalances have narrowed considerably. Does …
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traders to arbitrageurs? We study firm business investment to address this question. In our model, benevolent managers of … with positive net present value. Empirically, we find a positive relation between investment and a number of proxies for … mispricing, controlling for investment opportunities and financial slack, suggesting that overpriced (underpriced) firms tend to …
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This Paper asks whether the asset pricing fluctuations induced by the presence of costly external finance are empirically plausible. To accomplish this, we incorporate costly external finance into a dynamic stochastic general equilibrium model and explore its implications for the properties of...
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We model corporate liquidity policy and show that aggregate risk exposure is a key determinant of how firms choose between cash and bank credit lines. Banks create liquidity for firms by pooling their idiosyncratic risks. As a result, firms with high aggregate risk find it costly to get credit...
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We use the neoclassical growth framework to model international capital flows in a world with exogenous demographic change. We compare model implications and actual current account data and find that the model explains a small but significant fraction of capital flows between OECD countries, in...
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The surge in the German current account surplus in the 2000s is often interpreted as the result of efficiency-enhancing structural reforms, especially in the labor market. However, this interpretation is puzzling because the growth rate of the German economy has been one of the lowest in the...
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, because the demand for foreign bonds is a complement to domestic investment rather than a substitute. We show that this …-growth, high-investment, emerging countries. …
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In this paper, we examine theoretically how corporate saving in emerging markets is contributing to global rebalancing. We consider a two-country dynamic general equilibrium model, based on Bacchetta and Benhima (2014), with a Developed and an Emerging country. Firms need to save in liquid...
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We present a dynamic agency model of investment, borrowing and payout decisions by a mature corporation operating in … managerial rents. They under-invest and smooth payout and rents. Debt is the shock-absorber for operating income and investment …
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This paper models the effect of disclosure on real investment. We show that, even if the act of disclosure is costless … cutting investment. Investment depends on asset pricing variables such as investors' liquidity shocks; disclosure depends (non … optimal to induce investment, the manager may be unable to commit to it. If hard information turns out to be good, he will …
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