"inventory elasticity of consumption" to represent the effect of inventory on consumption rates and propose a function that … inventory elasticity of consumption is highly significant in all categories and the elasticities range from 0.28 to 2.46. Some …

in the two countries and in (ii) the interaction of investment and financing decisions. This paper investigates the … impact of financing, investment, and dividend decisions on the value of stock corporations in Germany and the US. The … investment creates value in excess of cost, but the US industrial sector seems to be more efficient in making value …

alternative for modelling financial data exhibiting skewness and fat tails. In this paper we explore the Bayesian estimation of …

world income distribution dynamics. Formal statistical hypothesis tests allow us to discriminate between two competing … evidence suggests that the high social returns to investment in equipment (as opposed to structure) reflect technology transfer … contributes to the polarization of the world income distribution. -- economic growth ; neoclassical convergence ; technological …

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.’s investment game by introducing an upper bound to what a contributor can be repaid afterwards. By varying this upper bound …

contracting is infeasible. One example is the study by Berg et al. (1995) of the investment game. In this game the person who … receives the investment is the one who may reward the investor. This is a direct reward game. Similar to Dufwenberg et al … investor may only be rewarded by a third person who did not receive his investment. Furthermore we investigate the influence of …