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Downward revision of investment decisions after corporate tax hikes

Link, Sebastian; Menkhoff, Manuel; Peichl, Andreas; … - 2023

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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Physical pain, gender, and the state of the economy in 146 nations

Macchia, Lucía; Oswald, Andrew J. - 2021

Rationale: Physical pain is one of the most severe of human experiences. It is thus one of the most important to understand. Objective: This paper reports the first cross-country study of the links between physical pain and the state of the economy. A key issue examined is how the level of pain...

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Frictions and the joint behavior of hiring and investment

Yashiv, Eran - 2012

The decisions of firms on investment and hiring play a crucial role in business cycle fluctuations. This paper explores … investment costs. It is significant and negatively signed, implying complementarity between investment and hiring. There is a … the investment part of the model is poor if hiring is left out completely or is introduced without the interaction between …

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Australia: the miracle economy

Junankar, Pramod N. - 2013

Most of the countries of the OECD are still suffering from the Global Financial Crisis (GFC) (or as the Americans call it the Great Recession), but the Australian economy appears to be powering ahead. It is a miracle economy! Unlike most of the OECD countries, Australia did not even have a...

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Business cycles, unemployment and entrepreneurial entry : evidence from Germany

Fritsch, Michael; Kritikos, Alexander; Pijnenburg, Katharina - 2013

what extent business cycles or unemployment levels influence entries into entrepreneurship. Our analysis for Germany …

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Smoking and the business cycle : evidence from Germany

Kaiser, Micha; Reutter, Mirjam; Sousa-Poza, Alfonso; … - 2017

In this paper, we use data from the German Socio-Economic Panel to investigate the effect on cigarette consumption of macro-economic conditions in the form of regional unemployment rates. The results from our panel data models, several of which control for selection bias, indicate that the...

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Counteracting unemployment in crises : non-linear effects of short-time work policy

Gehrke, Britta; Hochmuth, Brigitte - 2018

Short-time work is a labor market policy that subsidizes working time reductions among firms in financial difficulty to prevent layoffs. Many OECD countries have used this policy in the Great Recession. This paper shows that the effects of short-time work are strongly time dependent and...

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Are apprenticeships business cycle proof?

Lüthi, Samuel; Wolter, Stefan C. - 2018

Although there is evidence that apprenticeship training can ease the transition of youth into the labour market and thereby reduce youth unemployment, many policy makers fear that firms will cut their apprenticeship expenditures during economic crises, thus exacerbating the problem of youth...

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Business cycles and start-ups across industries : an empirical analysis of German regions

Konon, Alexander; Fritsch, Michael; Kritikos, Alexander - 2018

We analyze whether start-up rates in different industries systematically change with business cycle variables. Using a unique data set at the industry level, we mostly find correlations that are consistent with counter-cyclical influences of the business cycle on entries in both innovative and...

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Opportunity versus necessity entrepreneurship : two components of business creation

Fairlie, Robert W.; Fossen, Frank M. - 2018

A common finding in the entrepreneurship literature is that business creation increases in recessions. This counter-cyclical pattern is examined by separating business creation into two components: "opportunity" and "necessity" entrepreneurship. Although there is general agreement in the...

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