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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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associations, mortgage companies, investment banks and securities markets - that emerged to fill specific financial niches, compete …
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We develop a micro-founded general equilibrium model with heterogeneous agents and three dimensions of financial inclusion: access (determined by a participation cost), depth (determined by a borrowing constraint), and intermediation efficiency (determined by a monitoring cost). We find that the...
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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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and investment. However, for growth, higher inequality tends to retard growth in poor countries and encourage growth in …
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This essay discusses the reasons for and implications of the decline in real interest rates around the world over the past several decades. It suggests that the decline in interest rates is largely explicable from trends in saving, growth, and markups. In this environment, greater government...
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features of the world at present are the low rates of investment and growth in some of the richest countries, whose surpluses … account for about half of the US deficit. The result is that financial capital is flowing out of countries with low investment …
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growth. Investment growth has dominated GDP growth in China during this decade but is also important in the cases of India … and Vietnam. <br> <br>To examine the global implications of domestic growth patterns in Asia, I analyze saving-investment … region. In terms of sheer magnitudes, China's national savings and current account surpluses dominate the region's saving-investment …
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We review evidence on the Great Moderation in conjunction with evidence about volatility trends at the micro level. We combine the two types of evidence to develop a tentative story for important components of the aggregate volatility decline and its consequences. The key ingredients are...
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by introducing intangible investment and non-neutral technology change with respect to producing intangible investment …. We use the theory to compare current accounting measures for labor productivity and investment with the corresponding … measures for the model economy with intangible investment. Our findings show that standard accounting measures greatly …
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