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productivity in the 1950s and 1960s. Finally, it appears that congestion significantly affects road-services at the margin …
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A cash-in-advance constraint on consumption is incorporated into a standard model of consumption and capital …
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capital as a function of its debt/equity ratio. Domestic and foreign investment will be interdependent, since, in competing … for finance, each affects the cost of capital in the other location. Production interactions can arise when, because of …
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A state-dependent income tax is incorporated into an intertemporal production economy. Methods are developed for establishing the existence and uniqueness of an equilibrium, and for explicitly constructing this equilibrium. Some tax-policy experiments are suggested, the results of which may have...
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This paper provides direct measures of the international mobility of long-term financial capital using interest … evidence, discussed below, indicates that long-term financial capital is as mobile across these markets as is short …-term capital. This appears to be the case both within the Euromarkets and across political jurisdictions. …
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Previous literature demonstrates that in a computational life cycle model the optimal tax on capital is positive and … model that generates a large optimal tax on capital similar to the model in Conesa et al. (2009). First, the utility … his lifetime. Second, the government is allowed to tax accidental bequests at a separate rate from ordinary capital income …
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This paper considers the impact of endogenous human capital accumulation on optimal tax policy in a life cycle model …. Including endogenous human capital accumulation, either through learning-by-doing or learning-or-doing, is analytically shown to …, then it is optimal to use a tax on capital in order to mimic such taxes. Quantitatively, introducing learning-by-doing or …
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banks starved for capital. In September 1995, the Mitsubishi Bank was permitted to issue a complicated convertible security …'s annualized risk-adjusted cost of capital through this instrument was between 80 and 310 basis points higher than if the bank had …
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One of the salient characteristics of the 1980s is the growth collapse of the Latin American debtor countries. The debt-overhang literature claims that the debt crisis is the main reason for the growth collapse. However, previous empirical work has failed to support this hypothesis. We reexamine...
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