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The State of U.S. Corporate Governance : What's Right and What's Wrong?

Holmström, Bengt R. - 2009

The U.S. corporate governance system has recently been heavily criticized, largely as a result of failures at Enron, WorldCom, Tyco and some other prominent companies. Those failures and criticisms, in turn, have served as catalysts for legislative change (Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002) and...

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Gender differences in social capital investment : theory and evidence

Leeves, Gareth D.; Herbert, Ric D. - In: Economic modelling 37 (2014), pp. 377-385

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Have US external imbalances been determined at home or abroad?

Makin, Anthony John; Narayan, Paresh Kumar - In: Economic modelling 25 (2008) 3, pp. 520-531

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Public and private investment in the United States and Canada

Voss, Graham M. - In: Economic modelling 19 (2002) 4, pp. 641-664

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The U.S. Left Behind : The Rise of IPO Activity Around the World

Doidge, Craig - 2011

During the past two decades, there has been a dramatic change in IPO activity around the world. Though vibrant IPO activity, attributed to better institutions and governance, used to be a strength of the U.S., it no longer is. IPO activity in the U.S. has fallen compared to the rest of the world...

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Explaining Investment Dynamics in U.S. Manufacturing : A Generalized (S,S) Approach

Caballero, Ricardo J. - 2011

In this paper we derive a model of aggregate investment that builds from the lumpy microeconomic behavior of firms … aggregate investment obtained from adding up the actions of firms subject to aggregate and idiosyncratic shocks, is highly non … postwar sectoral U.S. manufacturing equipment and structures investment. For a given sequence of aggregate shocks, the …

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Tax Policy and Business Fixed Investment in the United States

Auerbach, Alan J. - 2008

This paper derives and estimates models of nonresidential investment behavior in which current and future tax … postwar U.S. investment behavior, particularly for investment in machinery and equipment. In addition, the paper develops a … method for assessing the impact of tax policy on the volatility of investment when such policy is endogenous. Illustrative …

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Tax Reform and Adjustment Costs : the Impact on Investment and Market Value

Auerbach, Alan J. - 2002

This paper derives analytical measures of the combined effects of tax changes and adjustment costs on investment and …

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Measuring Real Investment : Trends in the United States and International Comparisons

Kirova, Milka S. - 2010

we have calculated in real terms across countries and over time indicate that US investment ratios have been rising over …

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Comparison and Analysis of Productivity Growth and R&D Investment in Theelectrical Machinery Industries of the United States and Japan

Nadiri, M. Ishaq; Prucha, Ingmar R. - 2021

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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