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investigate different identification schemes for bi-variate systems comprising U.S. stock prices and total factor productivity …. The former variable is viewed as reflecting expectations of economic agents about future productivity. It is found that … used for total factor productivity. -- Cointegration ; Markov regime switching model ; vector error correction model …
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Contrary to the central prediction of signaling models, changes in profits do not empirically follow changes in dividends. We show both theoretically and empirically that dividends signal safer, rather than higher, future profits. Using the Campbell (1991) decomposition, we are able to estimate...
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industry productivity. For this purpose we develop a reciprocal dumping model of international trade with heterogeneous firms … expected industry productivity. The central results of the paper regarding firm and industry level R&D spending differ … significantly from the case of homogeneous firms. -- international trade ; firm heterogeneity ; R&D ; productivity ; market …
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is found that patents ought to be weaker, the more intense competition, the higher R&D productivity, and the more …
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This paper assesses sources of productivity spillovers in China's electric and electronic manufacturing industry using … important reliance on technology. In particular, the paper focuses on the role of other firms' productivity as well as … productivity shifters in affecting own firm-level total factor productivity. In addition, this paper examines the possible …
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Productivity. We endogenize the accrual of the R&D stocks by estimating an R&D investment function. We find that the marginal …
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Research and Development (R&D) activities of emerging countries (EMEs) have increased considerably in recent years. Recent micro studies and anecdotal evidence points to industrialized countries as the sources of knowledge in EMEs. In this context, we examine ideas production and international...
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This paper investigates the positive international spillover effects of non-discriminatory product regulations, such as quality standards. We incorporate regulations into a multi-country general equilibrium framework with firm heterogeneity and variable markups. We model regulations as a...
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profitability of banks’ portfolios affect their ability to cover for any liquidity shortage and hence influence the premium they … require to carry maturity risk. During a boom, profitability is increasing and thus spreads are low, while during a recession … profitability is decreasing and spreads are high, in accordance with the cyclical properties of term spreads in the data. Second, we …
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