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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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investment. Uncertainty increases real option values making firms more cautious when investing or disinvesting. This is confirmed … both numerically for a model with a rich mix of adjustment costs, time-varying uncertainty, and aggregation over investment … investment response to demand shocks. This implies the responsiveness of firms to any given policy stimulus may be much lower in …
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employment, investment and productivity, and a moderate loss in GDP. This temporary impact of a second moment shock is different …
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even after controlling for investment, size, book-to-market and momentum as well as other known predictors of stock returns …-adjusted discount rates. The model implies that the investment rate and the hiring rate predicts stock returns because these variables …
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This paper is about net national product (NNP). We are concerned with what NNP means, what it should include, what it offers us and, therefore, why we may be interested in it. We show that NNP, properly defined, can be used as a gauge for project evaluation, but we also show that it should not...
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This paper uses a new data-set to examine how internal capital markets and foreign ownership affect investment. Our … data allow us to compare investment behaviour of listed subsidiaries with stand-alone firms while controlling for … investment opportunities of parent and subsidiary firms. We evaluate how the size of ownership and the geographical proximity of …
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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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Labor market institutions, via their effect on the wage structure, affect the investment decisions of firms in labor … structure in Europe in the 1980s. These different trends are the result of different investment decisions by firms for the jobs …
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This paper presents annual estimates of fixed capital stocks and capital services for the United Kingdom, 1950-2013, for the whole economy and for the market sector. Our estimates cover eight asset types (structures, machinery, vehicles, computers, purchased software, own-account software,...
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