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Business cycle indicators are important instruments for monitoring economic development. When employing indicators one usually relies on a sound statistical database. This paper deals with indicator development in a sparse data situation. Indicator building is merged with temporal...
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We construct a meta–ranking of 315 economics journals based on 38 different individual rankings. Our ranking incorporates both bibliometric measures from three different databases (Web of Knowledge, RePEc and Google Scholar) and previous rankings in the literature. Furthermore, we account for...
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Changing distributions of male and female types affect the measurement of education-based marriage market sorting. We develop a weighting strategy that minimizes the distortion of sorting measures due to changing type distributions. The optimal weights reflect that female type distributions have...
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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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and investment decisions of firms, highlighting that differences in expectations do indeed seem to lead to differences in …
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significant impact. Finally, either regulatory instrument may induce the highest technology investment levels. …
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We investigate the potential for statistical forecasting of aggregate oil and gas investment on the Norwegian … random walk benchmark in an out-of-sample environment. Second, lags of investment growth, crude oil price growth and realized … volatility is found to be adequate predictors for the investment growth. Finally, there is a clear benefit from re-estimating the …
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effects on physical capital, employment and productivity through a production function. On the basis of reforms defined as … on GDP per capita of policies transiting through capital deepening can be considerably larger than the 5- to 10-year …
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firms’ capital investment by 10 to 13 cents. In line with the financial accelerator model, our findings indicate that the … crowding-out capital investment of other firms in the same industry. Overall, our findings lend support to recent evidence on …We study the effects of federal purchases on firm investment using a novel panel dataset that combines federal …
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For a long time, China’s impressive growth performance has been driven by investment and high productivity gains. Based … sustainability of China’s investment- and export-driven growth model. It is shown that since the turn of the millennium buoyant … capital inflows and low interest rates have been at the roots of overinvestment and misallocation of capital, which …
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