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Interest rate hysteresis in macroeconomic investment under uncertainty

Belke, Ansgar; Göcke, Matthias - 2019

The interest rate is generally considered as an important driver of macroeconomic investment. As an innovation, this … paper derives the exact shape of the "hysteretic" impact of changes in the interest rate on macroeconomic investment under … capital stock and, explicitly, of stochastic changes on the interest rate-investment hysteresis. Starting with hysteresis …

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Interest rate bands of inaction and play-hysteresis in domestic investment : evidence for the Euro area

Belke, Ansgar; Frenzel Baudisch, Coletta; Göcke, Matthias - 2019

The interest rate represents an important monetary policy tool to steer investment in order to reach price stability …. Therefore, implications of the exact form and magnitude of the interest rate-investment nexus for the European Central Bank … impact of changes in the interest rate on macroeconomic investment under certainty and under uncertainty to investigate …

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Improving access to savings through mobile money : experimental evidence from African smallholder farmers

Batista, Catia; Vicente, Pedro C. - 2019

Investment in improved agricultural inputs is infrequent for smallholder farmers in Africa. One barrier may be limited … money as a tool to promote agricultural investment. For this purpose, we designed and conducted a field experiment with a … interest was being paid. It also increased agricultural investment in fertilizer, although there was no change in investment in …

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Evidence on the costs of intra-European exchange rate variability

Belke, Ansgar; Gros, Daniel - 1998

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Venture capital investment and labor market performance : new empirical evidence for OECD countries

Belke, Ansgar (contributor); Schaal, Andreas (contributor) - 2004

Anglo-Saxon countries have been successful in the 1990s concerning labor market performance compared to the former role models Germany and Japan. This reversal in relative economic performance might be related to idiosyncracies in financial markets with bank-based financial markets as in Germany...

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Monetary policy and investment decisions : a stylized treatment of the uncertainty trap

Belke, Ansgar; Göcke, Matthias - In: Wirtschaftspolitik im Zeichen europäischer Integration …, (pp. 223-246). 2009

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Closing the gender profit gap?

Batista, Catia; Sequeira, Sandra; Vicente, Pedro C. - 2021

We examine the impact of providing access to mobile savings accounts and improving financial management skills on the performance of female-led microenterprises in Mozambique. We find evidence that both interventions can improve business performance but the effects are highly heterogeneous....

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Is mobile money changing rural Africa? : evidence from a field experiment

Batista, Catia; Vicente, Pedro C. - 2023

, where we observe lower agricultural activity and investment. At the same time, remittances received and welfare of rural …

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