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This paper takes a retrospective look at the U.S. government's effort to rescue and restructure General Motors and Chrysler in the midst of the 2009 economic and financial crisis. The paper describes how two of the largest industrial companies in the world came to seek a bailout from the U.S....
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We estimate the effects of privatization on zombie versus healthy state-owned enterprises (SOEs) in China, extending our analysis beyond TFP to a broad array of financial and economic indicators. Privatizing zombie SOEs enhances labor productivity and TFP, reduces bank and government subsidies,...
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flexibility is desirable in the presence of real country-specific shocks that require adjustment in relative prices. However, in …
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We implement a new survey of firms, focusing on their higher-order macroeconomic expectations. The survey provides a novel set of stylized facts regarding the relationship between first-order and higher-order expectations of economic agents, including how they adjust their beliefs in response to...
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two-way trade in differentiated products. The findings are consistent with the "smooth adjustment" hypothesis. Anti …
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This paper reconciles the persistence of aggregate real exchange rates with the faster adjustment of international … stylized facts regarding this puzzle. First, adjustment to purchasing power parity deviations in aggregated data is not just a … slower version of adjustment to the law of one price in microeconomic data, as arbitrage occurs in different markets, in …
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A pervasive problem in the literature on the health costs of pollution is that optimizing individuals may compensate for increases in pollution by reducing their exposure to protect their health. This implies that estimates of the health effects of pollution may vastly understate the full...
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What determines the boundary of multinational firms? According to Williamson (1975), a potential rationale for vertical integration is to facilitate adaptation in a world where uncertainty is resolved over time. This paper offers the first empirical analysis of the impact of adaptation on the...
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We find evidence of threshold behavior in current account adjustment for the G7 countries, such that the dynamics of … adjustment towards equilibrium depend upon whether the current-account/ net-output ratio breaches estimated, country specific … current account surplus or deficit thresholds. Both the speeds of adjustment and the size of the thresholds are found to …
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, econometric partial adjustment models perform relatively well at the aggregate level. Analyzing the classic employment adjustment … problem, we show how discrete and occasional microeconomic adjustment is well described by a new form of partial adjustment … discrete and occasional adjustment at the micro level, where production units are essentially restricted to either operate with …
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