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Investment Under Rational Inattention : Evidence from US Sectoral Data
Zorn, Peter - 2020
Macroeconomic and sector-specific shocks exert differential effects on investment in disaggregate sectoral data. The … monotonically. A calibrated model of investment with convex capital adjustment costs and rational inattention explains these … features of the data. The model matches the empirical responses of sectoral investment because learning about shocks generates …
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Trust, Investment and Competition : Theory and Evidence from German Car Manufacturers
Calzolari, Giacomo - 2019
, we show that more trust in a relationship is associated with higher idiosyncratic investment by suppliers and better part … relationships involving higher trust, buyers are able to induce higher investment and more intense competition among suppliers - but …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012866364
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Time-Varying Dynamics of the German Business Cycle : A Comprehensive Investigation
Reif, Magnus - 2021
shocks and the shock propagation processes. Thus, I conclude that business cycle stabilization in Germany is driven by both …
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Quarterly GDP Estimates for the German States : New Data for Business Cycle Analyses and Long-Run Dynamics
Lehmann, Robert; Wikman, Ida - 2023
Germany. The new data set will regularly be updated when quarterly economic growth for Germany becomes available. We use the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014260700
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Booms, recessions and financial turmoil : a fresh look at investment decisions under cyclical uncertainty
Chen, Yu-Fu; Funke, Michael - 2009
The paper studies the interaction between cyclical uncertainty and investment in a stochastic real option framework … of the link between cyclical uncertainty and investment is quantified using simulations of the model. The chief …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271966
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Micro Jumps, Macro Humps : Monetary Policy and Business Cycles in an Estimated Hank Model
Auclert, Adrien - 2020
shock. Our estimated model uncovers a central role for investment in the transmission mechanism of monetary policy, as high … MPCs amplify the investment response in the data. This force also generates a procyclical response of consumption to … investment shocks, leading our model to infer a central role for these shocks as a source of business cycles …
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Heterogeneous Expectations, Indeterminacy, and Postwar US Business Cycles
Ilabaca, Francisco - 2020
This paper estimates a New Keynesian model extended to include heterogeneous expectations, to revisit the evidence that postwar US macroeconomic data can be explained as the outcome of passive monetary policy, indeterminacy, and sunspot-driven fluctuations in the pre-1979 sample, with a switch...
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The Coronavirus and the Great Influenza Epidemic - Lessons from the 'Spanish Flu' for the Coronavirus's Potential Effects on Mortality and Economic Activity
Barro, Robert J. - 2020
Mortality and economic contraction during the 1918-1920 Great Influenza Epidemic provide plausible upper bounds for outcomes under the coronavirus (COVID-19). Data for 43 countries imply flu-related deaths in 1918-1920 of 39 million, 2.0 percent of world population, implying 150 million deaths...
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Sectoral Okun's Law and Cross-Country Cyclical Differences
Goto, Eiji - 2020
We estimate Okun's law, the negative relationship between output and the unemployment rate, at the sector level for the US, the UK, Japan, and Switzerland to test several hypotheses that may explain why the aggregate Okun's coeffcients are different across countries. Specifically, we show that...
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The Impact of Aggregate Uncertainty on Firm-Level Uncertainty
Easaw, Joshy; Grimme, Christian - 2021
We analyse the extent to which firm-level uncertainty is affected by aggregate uncertainty. Firm-level uncertainty is constructed from a large and monthly panel dataset of manufacturing firms. We find that aggregate uncertainty has a positive and robust impact on firm-level uncertainty. This...
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