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competition a¤ects the industrial dynamics of investment, concentration, and expected returns. When firms have similar production …
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question, the evidence suggests uncertainty is damaging for short-run investment and hiring, but there is some evidence it may …
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This paper investigates the relationship between infation uncertainty and investment using a panel of loan-level data … investment. Moreover, there is a shift in the composition of investment away from fixed assets and towards working capital - the … more flexible factor of production - and fixed asset investment exhibits periods of inaction consistent with real option …
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Whether or not the marginal product of capital (MPK) differs across countries is a question that keeps coming up in discussions of comparative economic development and patterns of capital flows. We use easily accessible macroeconomic data to shed light on this issue, and find that MPKs are...
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This paper compares wealth portfolios across countries. The household sector in the US and Canada owns much more financial wealth, and much less housing wealth, than the household sector in most of Europe. We address this fact using a calibrated two sector growth model with endogenous financial...
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This paper studies the role of leasing of productive assets. When capital is leased (or rented), it is more easily repossessed and hence leasing has higher debt capacity and relaxes financing constraints. However, leasing gives rise to an agency problem with regard to the care with which the...
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fertility and lower investment in physical and human capital. Furthermore, the feedback effect from economic prosperity to …
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When financial markets are incomplete, shareholders will in general disagree on the optimal level of investment to be … the asset market. In the model economy analyzed here consumers face idiosyncratic labor income risk and the only asset … competitive equilibrium shareholders will unanimously agree on the optimal level of investment. As a result, in this incomplete …
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We develop a model of investment with financial constraints and use it to investigate the relation between investment … correlation between q and investment. We calibrate the model and show that, thanks to this effect, the model can generate … realistic correlations between investment, q and cash flow …
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