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with frictions in the adjustment of both capital and labor. We posit that hiring of labor is akin to investment in capital ….S. corporate sector data to estimate firms’ optimal hiring and investment decisions and the consequences for firms’ value. We then … investment and physical capital. We find that a conventional specification – quadratic adjustment costs for capital and no hiring …
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investment. Moreover, we find that the market oriented reforms introduced in Colombia after 1990 increased employment adjustments …
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We model the aid allocation decision where the donor government has announced that good governance is the criterion for receiving aid. Potential recipients must compete for the aid funds. The structure of the competition is important to the donor in terms of achieving good governance, and to the...
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This paper examines to what extent recent empirical evidence can collectively and systematically substantiate the claim that entrepreneurship has important economic value. Hence, a systematic review is provided that answers the question: What is the contribution of entrepreneurs to the economy...
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dynamics as investment conditions are similar. Our results are consistent with this hypothesis. Furthermore, there is no …
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We present evidence that an increase in investment as a share of GDP predicts a higher growth rate of output per worker … coefficients. They are robust to model specifications and estimation methods. The evidence that investment has a long-run effect on …
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We study the implications of product market competition and investment for price setting, wage bargaining and thereby …
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The empirical identification of non-linearities in investment relies on how investment is assumed to be separated into … investment which allows us to observe regime separation, an aspect of the data that is typically absent from previous empirical … concentrating investment in a single year. Moreover, there is evidence that investment is more sensitive to fundamentals in the high …
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Several recent empirical studies have examined the gender effects of education on economic growth or on steady-state level of output using the much exploited, familiar cross-country data in order to determine their quantitative importance and the direction of correlation. This paper undertakes a...
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This paper investigates the causal effect of changes in health on economic development using a long panel of European countries. Identification is based on the particular timing of the introduction of public health care systems in different countries, which is the random outcome of a political...
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