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The 2007-2009 recession is characterized by: a large drop in employment, an unprecedented decline in firm entry, and a slow recovery. Using confidential firm-level data, I show that financial constraints reduced employment growth in small relative to large firms by 4.8 to 10.5 percentage points....
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The 2007-2009 recession is characterized by: a large drop in employment, an unprecedented decline in firm entry, and a slow recovery. Using confidential firm-level data, I show that financial constraints reduced employment growth in small relative to large firms by 4.8 to 10.5 percentage points....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014088088
rates caused by demographic forces. This insight is obtained in a model in which intangible capital cannot attract external … aggregate output. An increase in the share of intangible capital in production reduces the borrowing capacity and increases the …-intense economy, the ability of firms to purchase intangible capital using retained earnings is impaired by low interest rates …
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This paper estimates the long run elasticity of the demand for fixed nonresidential capital (both equipment and … possibility that the capital demand curve is better identified in a small open economy because shocks to capital supply are more … of capital demand …
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liability side. The endogenously determined asset portfolio and capital structure interact to support credit extension, as well … joint implementation of a capital and a liquidity regulation …
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I use micro data to quantify key features of U.S. firm financing. In particular, I establish that a substantial 35% of firms' investment is funded using financial markets. I then construct a dynamic equilibrium model that matches these features and fit the model to business cycle data using...
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This paper studies the behavior of producers of capital goods, examining how they set shipments in response to …
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Despite the recent patch of sluggish growth, the U.S. economy has experienced a period of remarkable stability since the mid-1980s. One popular explanation attributes the diminished variability of economic activity to information-technology-led improvements in inventory management. Our results,...
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We explore the structural drivers of bank and nonbank credit cycles using an estimated medium-scale macro model that allows for bank and nonbank financial intermediation. We posit economy-wide aggregate and sectoral disturbances to potentially drive bank and nonbank credit growth. We find that...
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standard deviation increase in credit line drawdown is associated with an increase of 9 percent in average capital expenditures …
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