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This paper explores the dynamics of press freedom around events that threaten or oust the incumbent regime of a country. While democracies on average grant the press more freedom, our theoretical starting point is that democracies and autocracies may have similar incentives to protect the power...
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The optimal transition to a low-carbon economy must account for adjustment costs in switching from dirty to clean capital, technological progress, and economic and climatic shocks. We study the low-carbon transition using a dynamic stochastic general equilibrium model with emissions abatement...
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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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complementary investment in production activities. Our theoretical findings are motivated by existing empirical evidence and a fresh …
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investment in an international infrastructure capital, the stock of which accumulates over time. Depending on the trade costs and … consideration, the governments carry out a dynamic game of public investment. We show that the dynamic equilibrium of the policy …
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will be different for the two firm types. This in turn will affect the investment incentives and distort capital and labour …
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and only if the investment elasticity of the tax base is lower than the investment elasticity of the apportionment factor …
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that anticipate the actual tax base incorrectly. I analyze the effects of stochastic taxation on investment behavior in a … the effects of both tax base and tax rate uncertainty, the investment's tax payment is modelled as a stochastic process …. Increased tax uncertainty has an ambiguous impact on investment timing. The view that tax uncertainty depresses real investment …
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equilibrium, general-equilibrium effects overturn this result: a monetary expansion increases the investment of high …
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When investment is irreversible, theory suggests that firms will be "reluctant to invest." This reluctance creates a … wedge between the discount rate guiding investment decisions and the standard Jorgensonian user cost (adjusted for risk). We …
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