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Farhi, Emmanuel - 2009

expected exchange rate depreciations (appreciations) for high (low) interest rate currencies, suggesting that disaster risk is … priced in currency markets. To study the price of disaster risk, we propose a simple structural model that includes both … Gaussian and disaster risk and can be estimated even in samples that do not contain disasters. Estimating the model over the …

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Speculative growth : hints from the US economy

Caballero, Ricardo J. (contributor); … - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]. - Rev

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Foreign Direct Investments in Services and the Domestic Market for Expertise

Markusen, James R. - 2000

Producer services such as managerial and engineering consulting can provide domestic firms with the substantial benefits of specialized knowledge that would be costly in terms of both time and money for domestic firms to develop on their own. These intermediate services are often non-traded, or...

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Discriminating Among Alternative Theories of the Multinational Enterprise

Markusen, James R. - 1999

trade. One simple taxonomy separates the theory into vertical' models in which firms geographically separate activities by …

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The Structure of Multinational Firms' International Activities

Davies, Ronald B. - 2020

The structure of a multinational firm, that is how its affiliates relate to one another, is critical for understanding where multinationals locate, how policy affects them, and their resilience to localized shocks. Here, we review the two main structures: horizontal investments which replicate...

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A Short Note on Aggregating Productivity

Baqaee, David - 2019

This paper discusses two simple decompositions for aggregate productivity analysis in the presence of distortions and in general equilibrium. The first is a generalization of Baqaee and Farhi (2017) and the second is due to Petrin and Levinsohn (2012). In the process, we propose a new...

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The Darwinian Returns to Scale

Baqaee, David - 2020

How does an increase in the size of the market due to fertility, immigration, or trade integration, affect welfare and real GDP? We study this question using a model with heterogeneous firms, fixed costs, and monopolistic competition. We decompose the change in welfare into changes in technical...

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Entry vs. Rents

Baqaee, David - 2020

A tension between entry and rents lies at the core of a general theory of aggregation with scale effects. This paper …

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Supply and Demand in Disaggregated Keynesian Economies with an Application to the Covid-19 Crisis

Baqaee, David - 2020

We study supply and demand shocks in a general disaggregated model with multiple sectors, multiple factors, input-output linkages, downward nominal wage rigidities, credit-constraints, and a zero lower bound. We use the model to understand how the Covid-19 crisis, an omnibus of supply and demand...

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Bubbly Liquidity

Farhi, Emmanuel - 2011

This paper analyzes the possibility and the consequences of rational bubbles in a dy- namic economy where financially constrained firms demand and supply liquidity. Bub- bles are more likely to emerge, the scarcer the supply of outside liquidity and the more limited the pledgeability of...

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