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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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markets indicates that domestic agents may not be able to borrow in international capital markets to fully insure themselves …
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Are countries with unregulated capital flows more vulnerable to currency crises? Efforts to answer this question … properly must control for "self selection" bias since countries with liberalized capital accounts may also have more sound … sample selection bias, countries with liberalized capital accounts experience a lower likelihood of currency crises. That is …
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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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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 …
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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/10005401557
The 1998 Annual Capital Expenditure Survey (ACES) provides information on disaggregate investment across a wide range …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005401559
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005401584