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A Unified Theory of Firm Selection and Growth
Arkolakis, Costas - 2021
This paper develops a theory of firm selection and growth and embeds it into an international trade framework of …
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Growth Expectations, Undue Optimism, and Short-Run Fluctuations
Enders, Zeno - 2018
and the real-time prediction of professional forecasters. We find that optimism shocks – in line with theory - generate a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012938129
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Investment Shocks, Tax Evasion and the Consumption Puzzle : A DSGE Analysis with Financial Frictions
Chiarini, Bruno - 2016
explaining the consumption path after a Marginal Efficiency of Investment shock. We use an otherwise standard medium-scale New …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012984510
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Public R&D Support and Firms' Performance - A Panel Data Study
Nilsen, Øivind Anti - 2018
We analyse all the major sources of direct and indirect R&D subsidies in Norway in the period 2002-2013 and compare their effects on individual firms' performance. Firms that received support are matched with a control group of firms that did not receive support using a combination of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012912675
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What Drives Aggregate Investment? : Evidence from German Survey Data
Bachmann, Ruediger; Zorn, Peter - 2021
The ifo Investment Survey asks firms in the German manufacturing sector about the importance of sales, technological … factors, finance, return expectations, and macroeconomic policy for their investment activity in a given year. We show that … these subjective investment determinants 1) capture economically what their labels suggest, and 2) have strong explanatory …
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Market Entry Costs, Underemployment and International Trade
Bougheas, Spiros - 2010
We develop a small, open economy, two-sector model with heterogeneous agents and endogenous participation in a labor matching market. We analyze the implications of asymmetric market entry costs for the patterns of international trade and underemployment. Furthermore, we examine the welfare...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013135452
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Do Cost-Sharing and Entry Deregulation Curb Pharmaceutical Innovation?
Grossmann, Volker - 2011
This paper examines the role of both cost-sharing schemes in health insurance systems and entry regulation for pharmaceutical R&D expenditure, drug prices, aggregate productivity, and income. The analysis suggests that both an increase in the coinsurance rate and stricter price regulations...
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Entrepreneurial Innovations and Taxation
Haufler, Andreas - 2014
In many countries entrepreneurship is promoted through tax reductions for small businesses and by various government support schemes. We analyze the effects of such policies to subsidize small businesses in a setting where both the risk-return characteristics of the selected innovation project...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013067942
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Tax Evasion in a Cournot Oligopoly with Endogenous Entry
Goerke, Laszlo - 2017
If an additional competitor reduces output per firm in a homogenous Cournot-oligopoly, market entry will be excessive. Taxes can correct the so-called business stealing externality. We investigate how evading a tax on operating profits affects the excessive entry prediction. Tax evasion raises...
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Market Access through Bound Tariffs
Sala, Davide - 2009
WTO negotiations deal predominantly with bound - besides applied - tariff rates. But, how can reductions in tariffs ceilings, i.e. tariff rates that no exporter may ever actually be confronted with, generate market access? The answer to this question relates to the effects of tariff bindings on...
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