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While recurring and regular variations of weather conditions are implicitly addressed by standard seasonal adjustment procedures of economic time series, extraordinary weather outcomes are not. We propose a way of measuring aggregate abnormal weather conditions based on available local...
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We show that credit supply shocks have a strong impact on firm-level as well as aggregate investment by applying the … are found to impair firm-level investment in all firms in our sample, but in particular for small firms and those with no … 20–40% of aggregate investment dynamics. …
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autoregres-sion (SVAR) framework, that, in response to an adverse financial shock, tangible in-vestment falls more than … intangible investment. This positive co-movement betweentangible and intangible investment as well as the relative resilience of … intangibleinvestment pose a challenge for the theoretical model. We show that investment-specific adjustment costs help in reconciling the …
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growth compared with investment-led or exports-led growth. The same qualitative result emerges irrespectively of the length …
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This paper presents a novel Bayesian method for estimating dynamic stochastic general equilibrium (DSGE) models subject to a constrained posterior distribution of the implied Sharpe ratio. We apply our methodology to a DSGE model with habit formation in consumption and leisure, using an estimate...
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Japan's economy is expanding and expected to continue expanding moderately, according to Monthly Report of Recent Economic and Financial Developments released by the Bank of Japan in July 2007.The BOJ declared the change of policy stance at the Monetary Policy Meeting held on July 14, 2006. The...
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the low carbon-emitting sector, and (ii) reduce real investment and the capital stock in the highly carbon-emitting sector …, while real investment in the sector with low carbon emissions tends to fare better. To apply the theoretical predictions to … low carbon emissions, and (ii) substantial investment reallocation takes place, in particular from the manufacturing …
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growth compared with investment-led or exports-led growth. The same qualitative result emerges irrespectively of the length …
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We construct a simple exchange economy overlapping generations model in which there are along with a public social security various private insurance schemes to explore fertility and the effects of various variables on it. In the private system parents can invest in children and benefit from...
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This paper presents a non-technical overview of the recent investment literature with a special emphasis on the … connection between technological progress and the investment decision. First of all, we acknowledge that some dramatic advances …. Nonetheless, this new literature has not satisfactorily accounted for the investment-specific (or embodied) nature of technical …
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