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This paper analyzes the extent to which firms use trade credit to reallocate capital in response to tax incentives. Tax-induced differences in pretax returns encourage the use of trade credit to reallocate capital from firms facing low tax rates to those facing high tax rates. Evidence from the...
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This paper evaluates evidence of the impact of outbound foreign direct investment (FDI) on domestic investment rates …. OECD countries with high rates of outbound FDI in the 1980s and 1990s exhibited lower domestic investment than other … countries, which suggests that FDI and domestic investment are substitutes. U.S. time series data tell a very different story …
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This paper presents a comparative analysis of productivity growth in the U.S. and Japanese electrical machinery industries in the postwar period. This industry has experienced rapid growth in output and productivity and high rates of capital formation in both countries. A substantial amount of...
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We estimate and compare the production structures of the US, Japanese, and Korean total manufacturing sectors for the 1974-1990 period. We employ a translog variable cost function that includes such inputs as labor, materials, physical and R&D capital with the physical and R&D capital treated as...
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determination of investment decisions in R&D at the firm level. The model is based on cost minimization subject to the firm …'s expectations of the stream of output and the price of R&D, and results in equations for actual and multiple-span planned investment …
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interdependence with investment decisions. The approach is based on the view that the flow of undepreciated capital is an output to be …. Often this problem is ignored in the theory of investment, not only because depreciation is exogenous, but also due to the …
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investment demands and the elasticities are highly inelastic. The effect is stronger for P&E than for R&D capital in the long run …, while the effects on P&E and R&D investment are quite similar in the short run …
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This paper examines the investment effects of tax subsidies for which some assets and not others are eligible …. Distortionary tax subsidies encourage firms to concentrate investments in tax-favored assets profitability of investment and …, which in turn discourages investment. Borrowing rates react so strongly that aggregate investment may rise very little, or …
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The taxation of corporate assets is well understood to influence investment and firm valuation. This paper explores the … incentives than those implied by the usual static analysis. Simulation results suggest that investment is sensitive to future tax …
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Harberger triangles are used to calculate the efficiency costs of taxes, government regulations, monopolistic practices … evaluation of deadweight loss estimates led to new theories of rent-seeking and other inefficiencies of economies with multiple …
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