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We present a model of endogenous firm growth with R&D investment and stochastic innovation as the engines of growth …) firm growth independent of firm size, as stated in the so-called Gibrat's law, and (iii) R&D investment proportional to …
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Uncertainty about the level of demand is thought to influence irreversible capacity decisions. This paper examines some implications of the theory literature on this topic in an empirical study of the US cement industry between 1994 and 2006. Firms in this sector have the ability to deliver...
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firms' investment decisions. We characterize the conditions under which fire sales occur in equilibrium and their … consequences on firms' investment decisions. We also show that endogenous financial crises may arise in this environment, with …
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technology of private investment. Government policies that discourage saving might make the Schumpeterian vision of a shift from …
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taxes may thus change the investment behavior of firms. Using an international panel with many changes in payout taxes, we … show that this prediction holds well. Payout taxes have a large impact on the dynamics of corporate investment and growth …. Investment is "locked in" in profitable firms when payout is heavily taxed. Thus, apart from any aggregate effects, payout taxes …
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How do public and private information affect equilibrium allocations and social welfare in economies with investment …
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We show that the stock market may fail to aggregate information even if it appears to be efficient, and that the resulting decrease in the information content of prices may drastically reduce welfare. We solve a macroeconomic model in which information about fundamentals is dispersed and...
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What is the best way to incorporate a risk premium into the discount rate schedule for a real investment project with … uncertain payoffs? The standard CAPM formula suggests a beta-weighted average of the return on a safe investment and the mean … return on an economy-wide representative risky investment. Suppose, though, that the project constitutes a tail …
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We propose a model consistent with two observations. First, the tax rates adopted by different countries are generally uncorrelated with their growth performance. Second, countries that drastically reduce private incentives to invest, severely hurt their growth performance. In our model, the...
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We develop a dynamic model of trading and investment with limited aggregate resources to study investment cycles …. Unverifiable idiosyncratic investment opportunities imply market prices to play a role of rent distribution, distorting private … investment incentives from a social point of view. This distortion is price-dependent, leading to two-sided inefficient …
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