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We study the effects of monetary-policy-induced changes in Tobin's q on corporate investment and capital structure. We … evidence, and quantify the relevance for monetary transmission to aggregate investment …
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, scope, and investment decisions, and we outline their connection to recent macroeconomic and financial trends in the US …
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reason for why international investment in private companies has to take into account the sovereign risk. But the likelihood …
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When a bank experiences a negative shock to its equity, one way to return to target leverage is to sell assets. If asset sales occur at depressed prices, then one bank's sales may impact other banks with common exposures, resulting in contagion. We propose a simple framework that accounts for...
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We compare the investment of standalone firms across regions after a positive shock to the investment opportunities … generated by a large-scale highway development project. We show that the standalones' investment sensitivity is lower in regions …
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discount rates and thereby raise real investment. We analyze the macroeconomic implications of sticky discount rates using a … New Keynesian model. The model naturally generates investment-consumption comovement in response to household demand … shocks and higher investment in response to government spending. Sticky discount rates imply that inflation has real effects …
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Many business opportunities feature second-mover advantages as there are often positive spillovers and externalities from early entrants to followers. We develop a tractable stochastic duopoly entry game with a second-mover advantage. We show that firms engage in a war-of-attrition game with the...
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Standard theory implies that the discount rates used by firms in investment decisions (i.e., their required returns to … capital) determine investment and transmit financial shocks to the real economy. However, there exists little evidence on how … firms' discount rates change over time and affect investment. We construct a new global database based on manual entry from …
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We create a firm-level ChatGPT investment score, based on conference calls, that measures managers' anticipated changes … survey responses. The investment score predicts future capital expenditure for up to nine quarters, controlling for Tobin's q … and other determinants, implying the investment score provides incremental information about firms' future investment …
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The empirical analysis in "International R&D Spillovers" (Coe and Helpman, 1995) is first revisited by applying modern panel cointegration estimation techniques to an expanded data set that we have constructed for the purpose of this study. The new estimates confirm the key results reported in...
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