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Conventional wisdom has it that increasing price or exchange rate uncertainty will depress investment. Using the Dixit … uncertainty leads to more investment. It depends first on the risk of being stuck with (ex-post) unwanted investments, then on the … increase or decrease investment; and also to identify which types of industries would gain, and which would suffer, from a move …
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Previous empirical work on the link between domestic and foreign investment provides mixed results which partly depend … investment (FDI) cannot be gauged using firm-level data. Aggregated data, in turn, miss channels through which domestic and … investment. We theoretically show that the effects of FDI on the domestic capital stock depend on the structure of industries and …
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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 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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been significant changes in saving and investment patterns across the world and imbalances have narrowed considerably. Does …
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investment models must be attributable to movements in equity risk premia. In this Paper we emphasise that such movements in … equity risk premia should have implications not merely for investment today, but also for future investment over long …-horizon fluctuations in the growth of marginal Q, and therefore investment. We test this implication directly by performing long …
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investment goods in developing countries. One implication of our findings is that increased aid flows to developing countries …
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Theoretical models of investment under uncertainty predict that the sign and the strength of the investment … investment and the market power of the firm. This paper investigates the effects of uncertainty on the investment decisions of a …. Consistent with the predictions of the theory, there is considerable heterogeneity in the effect of uncertainty on investment: it …
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firm investment. This hypothesis is tested by estimating investment equations for two groups of German manufacturing firms … external financing costs and liquidity constraints. Findings support the hypothesis of greater investment sensitivity to … liquidity constraints, as well as increased investment sensitivity over time, for the group of independent firms. …
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