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The Porter hypothesis suggests a double dividend in the sense that environmental policy improves both environment and competitiveness. The suggestion received strong criticism from economists mainly driven by the idea that if opportunities for higher competitiveness exist firms do not have to be...
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Abstract: Banking crises involve periods of persistently low credit and economic growth. Banks’ balance sheets are then weak but so are those of non-financial corporate borrowers. Hence, a crucial question is whether credit growth is low due to supply or to demand factors. However convincing...
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that the resulting regulatory capital scheme using expected shortfall compares favorably to the current Basle Accord …
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.nancing when the bank faces binding capital constraints and there is asymmetric information about the quality of its loans …
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This paper investigates the scope for international coordination of capital income and profit taxation.The paper … considers a world of many symmetric countries where public goods are financed by taxes on capital income and on profits.In the … open economy, the authorities have at their disposal a residence-based saving tax, a source-based investment tax and a …
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).Input-output analysis enables us to calculate rent for the Canadian sectors over a thirty-year period and to decompose it in its capital and … interesting result however: the components influence performance in opposite directions.Capital rent has a positive role and labor … as a source of funding for R&D applies to capital and the argument that rent yields slack pertains to labor. …
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stock of capital.Here capital ages if the investment/capital ratio falls short of the inverse of the capital age, as a first …, when investment accelerated, the vintage-adjusted capital growth rate well exceeded the BEA growth rate, and …The age structure of capital plays an important role in the measurement of productivity.It has been argued that the …
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induces moral hazard. Therefore, we introduce a fiscal authority that is able to bail out the bank by injecting capital. This … authority faces a trade-off: when it imposes strict bailout conditions, investment increases but moral hazard ensues. Milder … bailout conditions reduce excessive risk taking at the expense of investment. This resembles the current situation on …
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. Liquidation values depend on how many firms are liquidated, and therefore on the industry equilibrium of capital structures and of … that even if in equilibrium all firms use the same technology, firms will use widely different capital structures. …
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In this paper the e.ect of environmental policy on the composition of capital is investigated.By allowing for non … in which their results do not carry over.In particular, we show that the way acquisition cost of investment decreases … with the age of the capital stock is of crucial importance.Also it is obtained that environmental policy has opposite e …
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