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This paper provides a general equilibrium multi-stage production model to explain the co-existence and co-movement of output- and input-inventories. The model offers a neoclassical perspective on the propagation mechanism of demand uncertainty. It reveals that uncertainty in demand at downstream...
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This paper provides a dynamic optimization model of durable good inventories to study the interactions between investment demand and production of capital goods. There are three major findings: First, capital suppliers' inventory behavior makes investment demand more volatile in equilibrium;...
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technologies. In an economy with aggregate risk, the different portfolio choices induced by heterogeneous trading technologies lead … with a reasonable low risk aversion rate, the business cycle costs 6.49% per period consumption for an average household … when I calibrate this model to match the risk premium. …
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returns over long periods of time. However, the approach to risk adjustment has typically been rather cursory, and has tended …
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welfare costs of inflation arise because inflation increases consumption risk by eroding the buffer-stock-insurance value of … money, thus hindering consumption smoothing at the household level. Such an inflation-induced increase in consumption risk …
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Foreign direct investment (FDI) began to flow into China with advent of reforms in 1978. Following a period of relatively slow growth, FDI inflows to China picked up after 1990, as China surpassed every other nation but the United States in attracting foreign investment. In particular, coastal...
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assistance tended to have larger numbers of foreign direct investments. …
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This paper studies asset allocation decisions in the presence of regime switching in asset returns. We find evidence that four separate regimes - characterized as crash, slow growth, bull and recovery states - are required to capture the joint distribution of stock and bond returns. Optimal...
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concerning foreign fundamentals. On a learning path, differences in beliefs and estimation risk generate portfolio biases similar …
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