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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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model. We find that i) government spending increases output and induces a simultaneous decline of investment and the current … account, but does not affect consumption; ii) the responses of output and investment are smaller in more open economies, while … simultaneous decline in investment and the current account. …
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This paper evaluates the effects of fiscal policy on investment using a panel of OECD countries. In particular, we … investigate how different types of fiscal policy affect profits and, as a result, investment. We find a sizeable negative effect … of public spending - and in particular of its public wage component - on business investment. This result is consistent …
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of growth. We employ historical data, recent cross-section data, and newly constructed public investment series. Our main … influenced by the scale of the economy, measured by its population; and third, investment in transport and communication is …
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This paper provides a theoretical and empirical analysis of the role played by domestic political incentives in the accumulation of large external debts by developing countries between 1972 and 1981. The theoretical model characterizes two equilibrium regimes. In one the borrower is on its...
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fiscal policies of future governments generates private capital flight and reduced domestic investment. This political …
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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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We develop a model of portfolio choice to nest the views of Keynes - who advocates concentration in a few familiar assets - and Markowitz - who advocates diversification across assets. We rely on the concepts of ambiguity and ambiguity aversion to formalize the idea of an investor’s...
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Credit constraints are more frequent among growth companies with large investment opportunities. For the same reason … investment opportunities to a larger extent. (ii) Taxes which are neutral in a neoclassical world, still restrict expansion … investment of constrained firms by reducing free cash-flow and thereby discourage innovation. (iii) A revenue neutral increase in …
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We conduct the first systematic evaluation of the world’s largest community-based development program--China’s flagship poverty alleviation program began in 2001 which finances public investments in designated poor villages based on participatory village planning. We use matching methods and...
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