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investment of constrained firms by reducing free cash-flow and thereby discourage innovation. (iii) A revenue neutral increase in …Credit constraints are more frequent among growth companies with large investment opportunities. For the same reason … endogenous share opts for innovation and faces credit constraints in the subsequent expansion phase. We emphasize four results …
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study the effect of a net neutrality regulation on capacity investments in the market for Internet access, and on innovation … capacity and content innovation are both higher than under net neutrality. Total welfare increases, though the discriminatory …
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Swedish census data and tax records reveal an astonishing wage compression; the Swedish skill premium fell by more than 30 percent between 1970 and 1990 while the U.S. skill premium, after an initial decline in the 1970s, rose by 8-10 percent. Since then both skill premia have increased by...
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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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We develop a model of portfolio choice to nest the views of Keynes - who advocates concentration in a few familiar assets - and Markowitz - who advocates diversification across assets. We rely on the concepts of ambiguity and ambiguity aversion to formalize the idea of an investor’s...
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We conduct the first systematic evaluation of the world’s largest community-based development program--China’s flagship poverty alleviation program began in 2001 which finances public investments in designated poor villages based on participatory village planning. We use matching methods and...
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or positive effects on R&D-investment, respectively. Both possibilities arise in plausible situations, even if one uses … on investment more likely. Extending the basic framework, the paper shows that separation of ownership and control …, endogenous entry and cumulative investments make positive effects of competition on investment more likely. Imperfect upstream …
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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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