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The cross-section of firms over the business cycle : new facts and a DSGE exploration

Bachmann, Ruediger; Bayer, Christian - 2009

-level investment is procyclical. We show that a heterogeneous-firm RBC model with quantitatively realistic countercyclically disperse … state investment rate distribution, produces investment dispersion that positively comoves with the cycle, with a …-sectional firm dynamics ; lumpy investment ; countercyclical risk ; aggregate shocks ; idiosyncratic shocks ; heterogeneous firms …

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Firm-specific productivity risk over the business cycle : facts and aggregate implications

Bachmann, Ruediger; Bayer, Christian - 2009

question in the context of a heterogeneous-firm RBC model with persistent firm-level productivity shocks and lumpy capital …-varying uncertainty, highlighted in the literature. -- Ss model ; RBC model ; lumpy investment ; countercyclical risk ; aggregate shocks …

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Capital accumulation and employment cycles in a model of creative destruction

Palokangas, Tapio K. - 2003

A Schumpeterian growth model is constructed for an economy with wage bargaining. It is shown that the economy is subject to cycles in which capital, output and employment vary in fixed proportion. These increase through saving and capital accumulation until a new technology is introduced, at...

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Investment in productivity and the long-run effect of financial crises in output

Ridder, Maarten de - 2016

models suggest that a shortfall in productivity-enhancing investments temporarily slows technological progress, creating a …-level exposure to the 2008-9 financial crisis, I show that tight credit reduced investments in productivity-enhancement, and has … 12% higher today if productivity-enhancing investments had grown at pre-crisis rates. …

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Risk pooling, leverage, and the business cycle

Dindo, Pietro; Modena, Andrea; Pelizzon, Loriana - 2019 - This version: 10th July 2019

This paper investigates the interdependence between the risk-pooling activity of the financial sector and: output, consumption, risk-free rate, and Sharpe ratio in a dynamic general equilibrium model of a productive economy. Due to their exposure to idiosyncratic shocks and market segmentation,...

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Endogenous business cycles and growth

Wälde, Klaus - 2003

&D investment. As this is very controversial from an empirical perspective, a stochastic Poisson model of endogenous business cycles … and growth is presented where the determinants of the cyclical behaviour of R&D investment are analytically studied …

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The nature of financial and real business cycles : the great moderation and banking sector pro-cyclicality

Égert, Balázs; Sutherland, Douglas - 2012

This paper takes a fresh look at the nature of financial and real business cycles in OECD countries using annual data series and shorter quarterly and monthly economic indicators. It first analyses the main characteristics of the cycle, including the length, amplitude, asymmetry and changes of...

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Asset returns, the business cycle, and the labor market : a sensitivity analysis for the German economy

Heer, Burkhard; Maußner, Alfred - 2011

We review the labor market implications of recent real-business-cycle models that successfully replicate the empirical equity premium. We document the fact that all models considered in this survey with the exception of Boldrin, Christiano, and Fisher (2001) imply a negative correlation of...

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Persistence and cycles in US hours worked

Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Gil-Alaña, Luis A. - 2012

This paper analyses monthly hours worked in the US over the sample period 1939m1 - 2011m10 using a cyclical long memory model; this is based on Gegenbauer processes and characterised by autocorrelations decaying to zero cyclically and at a hyperbolic rate along with a spectral density that is...

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Downward revision of investment decisions after corporate tax hikes

Link, Sebastian; Menkhoff, Manuel; Peichl, Andreas; … - 2022

This paper estimates the causal effect of corporate tax hikes on firm investment based on more than 1,400 local tax … changes. By observing planned and realized investment volumes in a representative sample of German manufacturing firms, we can … study how tax hikes induce firms to revise their investment decisions. On average, the share of firms that invest less than …

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