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technology shocks in explaining aggregate fluctuations. To this end we estimate the model's posterior density using Markov …
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This paper examines how product market competition affects firms' timing of adopting a new technology as well as …. When goods are differentiated enough, adoption occurs later than it is socially optimal. -- technology adoption …
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Rethinking the foundations of Heckscher-Ohlin theory when countries have different technologies, this paper shows how to make the proper adjustments for international productivity differences. The central tool is a factor conversion matrix that computes the local factor content of foreign...
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This paper proposes a theoretical framework to analyze the impacts of credit and technology shocks on business cycle … different realizations of firm specific technology shocks, possibly leading to default by some firms. The paper advances a new … financial institutions in the transmission of credit and technology shocks to the real economy. A positive credit shock, defined …
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For sufficiently low abatement costs many countries might undertake significant emission reductions even without any international agreement on emission reductions. We consider a situation where a coalition of countries does not cooperate on emission reductions but cooperates on the development...
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Carlo evidence suggests that the quadratic specification more precisely represents technology. …
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Production capital and technology, fundamental to understanding output and productivity growth, are unobserved except … of capital and technology for the sample period. We apply the method to annual data from 1947-97 for U.S. total …
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effects of entry-year electricity prices on subsequent energy intensity. We discuss how this "technology lock-in" increases …
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Using firm-level survey data for the West German manufacturing sector, this paper revisits the technology …-driven business cycle hypothesis for the case of aggregate investment. We construct a survey-based measure of technology shocks to … gauge their contribution to short-run investment fluctuations. We estimate an upper bound for the contribution of technology …
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presumption that subsidies may also be useful for pushing firms to operate over ground, in the presence of moonlighting technology …
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