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This paper examines the quantitative relationship between the elasticity of capital-labor substitution and the … observation, together with other empirical evidence, indicates that the elasticity of capital-labor substitution in the U …
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This paper investigates how concentrated ownership of capital influences the pricing of risky assets in a production …-agent economy because the capital owners' consumption is more strongly linked to volatile dividends from equity. A temporary shock … to the technology for producing new capital (an "investment shock") causes dividend growth to be much more volatile than …
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This paper explores the relationship between capital composition and productivity using a unique and remarkably … capital types, including computers, communications equipment, and software, are associated with current and subsequent years … exist for a number of key capital types. I also provide evidence of complementaries and substitutabilities among capital …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011026940
markets indicates that domestic agents may not be able to borrow in international capital markets to fully insure themselves …
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The 1998 Annual Capital Expenditure Survey (ACES) provides information on disaggregate investment across a wide range …
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We look at disaggregated imports of various types of equipment to make inferences on cross-country differences in the composition of equipment investment. We make three contributions. First, we document large differences in investment composition. Second, we explain these differences as being...
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We show that the steady-state optimal tax on capital income can be negative, positive, or zero in a neoclassical growth …-state optimal capital tax can range between -10 and 22%. …
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This paper explores the relationship between capital composition and productivity using a unique and remarkably … capital types, including computers, communications equipment, and software, are associated with current and subsequent years … exist for a number of key capital types. I also provide evidence of complementaries and substitutabilities among capital …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005401621
The standard argument for abstracting from capital accumulation in sticky-price macro models is based on their short …-run focus: over this horizon, capital does not move much. This argument is more problematic in the context of real exchange rate … (RER) dynamics, which are very persistent. In this paper we study RER dynamics in sticky-price models with capital …
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markets indicates that domestic agents may not be able to borrow in international capital markets to fully insure themselves …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010702168