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Hall has pointed out that, when there is perfect competition and price flexibility, labor hoarding alone will not induce the Solow residual measured using labor's share in revenues to be procyclical. We show that, even with perfect competition, a small amount of price rigidity - we assume firms...
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Reliable estimates of the value of electricity transmission are critical if these heavily-regulated investments are to be made cost-effectively. In this paper, we exploit the abrupt closure of the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station (SONGS) in February 2012. During the previous decade, SONGS...
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most important source of wage variation in France. Firm-effects, while important, are not as important as person …
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We investigate how labor and investment demand at the firm level (gross as well as net and replacement investment … for the important changes and differences in labor and investment demand between the two subperiods and across the three …
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incorporates both output (sales or turnover) and cash flow as predictors for investment. Our focus is on two comparisons: France …This paper is a contribution to the small but growing literature that compares the investment and R&D behavior of … of a simple error-corrected investment model for both ordinary investment and for R&D investment, a model that …
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This paper starts from two sets of facts about Continental Europe.The first is the steady increase in unemployment since the early 1970s. The second is the evolution of the capital share, an initial decline in the 1970s, followed by a much larger increase since the mid-1980s. The paper then...
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We construct company panel datasets for manufacturing firms in Belgium, France, Germany and the UK, covering the period … 1978-89. These datasets are used to estimate a range of empirical investment equations, and to investigate the role played … the suggestion that financial constraints on investment may be relatively severe in the more market-oriented UK financial …
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Over the past century the long-run growth of six economies shows a strong association between investment in machinery …, and that a high rate of machinery investment is a necessary prerequisite for rapid long-run productivity growth - a …
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We compute rates of growth in labor productivity during the 1973-80 period for samples of individual manufacturing firms, in both Japan and the U.S., and relate them to differences in the rates of growth in their capital-labor ratios and in their intensities of R&D effort. Japanese firms spent...
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reduces owners' capital investment - we find that granting formal control rights to workers raises capital formation. The … relations whereby shared governance raises capital by permitting workers to bargain over investment or by institutionalizing …
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