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variety of tests for world financial capital market integration ranging from the correlation of saving and investment …
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variety of tests for world financial capital market integration ranging from the correlation of saving and investment …
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Over the past decade, a number of researchers have extended conventional models of business fixed investment to … incorporate a role for financial constraints' in determining investment. This paper reviews developments and challenges in this … challenges. First, I describe analytical underpinnings of models of capital-market imperfections in the investment process, and …
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accumulation process lead to fluctuations in the real returns from intermediated investment. For this economy, we find that the … output, investment is negatively correlated with output, variations in the capital stock are quite large and interest rates …
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The elasticity of investment and R&D investment with respect to cash flow is unambiguously positive in a large panel of …. Other results are that debt is not favored as a form of finance for R&D-intensive firms; leverage ratios and R&D investment …. Finally, the contemporaneous relationship between changes in debt levels and investment which I have previously documented …
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We have constructed a simple two-sector model of the demand for housing and corporate capital. An increase in the inflation rate, with and with- out an increase in the risk premium on equities, was then simulated with a number of model variants. The model and simulation experiments illustrate...
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We study how investors' preferences for robustness influence corporate investment, financing, and compensation … ambiguity aversion lowers Tobin's q; the average investment, and investment volatility. The entrepreneur values the project at …
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neoclassical growth model. Investment rates and total factor productivity start out low and rise over time. These model dynamics …
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This paper uses a quasi natural experiment to explore how financial education changes savings, investment, and consumer …
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This paper studies the welfare properties of competitive equilibria in an economy with financial frictions hit by aggregate shocks. In particular, it shows that competitive financial contracts can result in excessive borrowing ex ante and excessive volatility ex post. Even though, from a...
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