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We analyze the impact of subsidies on R&D expenditures in the financial crisis and beyond. The financial crisis has led to considerable turmoil in financing and, as a result, to restrictions of firms' access to external financing. Utilizing this fact, we identify and analyze financing...
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This paper tests for the sensitivity of R&D to financing constraints conditional on restrictions in external financing. Financing constraints of firms are identified by an exogenously calculated rating index. Restrictions in external financing are determined by (i) the specific time period...
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which incorporate such linkages. The financial frictions typically considered are the financial accelerator mechanism … Constraints ; Financial Accelerator ; Model Comparison ; Eurosystem central bank models …
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frictions prevail. We modify a standard financial accelerator model à la Bernanke, Gertler, and Gilchrist (1999) and allow for …
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, the model reproduces a substantial share of the contraction (increase) of investment (the external finance premium …
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We document that expansionary monetary policy shocks are less effective at stimulating output and investment in periods … effectiveness of monetary policy can be linked to weaker responses of credit costs, suggesting a financial accelerator mechanism … aggregate shocks and the financial accelerator more effective. On the contrary, in high volatility periods banks decrease …
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This paper proposes a tractable financial accelerator New Keynesian DSGE modelthat allows for closed-form solutions. In …
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This paper develops a theory in which heterogeneity in political preferences produces a partisan disagreement about objective facts. A political decision involving both idiosyncratic preferences and scientific knowledge is considered. Voters form motivated beliefs in order to improve their...
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We build a life-cycle model in which a representative firm produces a final good using routine and non-routine labor as well as traditional and automation capital (e.g. robots). Robots can substitute for routine labor. We show that both, population aging and higher robot productivity, foster the...
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