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fixed investment that became excessive and proved to be unsustainable, while the productivity acceleration helps to account … productivity growth linked to the delayed effects of previously invented 'general purpose technologies' stimulated an increase in …-01 collapse of investment and the stock market proves that good public policy matters, going beyond the narrowly defined …
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Business support policies designed to raise productivity and employment are common worldwide, but rigorous micro … positive program treatment effect on employment, investment and net entry but not on TFP. OLS underestimates program effects …,300 suggesting that in some respects investment subsidies can be cost effective. …
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This paper studies business cycle interdependence among the industrialized countries since 1958. Using the spillover index methodology recently proposed by Diebold and Yilmaz (2009) and based on the generalized VAR framework, I develop an alternative measure of comovement of macroeconomic...
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We develop a model that examines the capital structure and investment decisions of regulated firms in a setting that …
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Business cycles reflect changes over time in the amount of trade between individuals. In this paper we show that incorporating explicitly intra-temporal gains from trade between individuals into a macroeconomic model can provide new insight into the potential mechanisms driving economic...
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us to reject this view. In fact, a net capital inflow made possible to meet the demand for investment boosting economic …
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This Paper documents four basic facts about investment goods and investment prices. First, investment has a very …, and transportation) are much less important for investment than for consumption. Third, the import content of investment …
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Several alterantive scenarios for the economic integration of East and West Germany are analysed. They all share an amphasis of the rile of migration and labor mobility in this process. The effects of congestion costs, rigid wages, human capital and heterogeneity of migrants, and endogenous...
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When new technologies become available, it is not only essential that firms have the correct investment incentives, but … often also that consumers make the proper usage decisions. This paper studies investment and usage in a shared ATM network …. Because all banks coordinate their ATM investment decisions, there is no strategic but only a pure cost-saving incentive to …
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the provision of long-term finance. This approach suggests that the separation between the analysis of investment and that …
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