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We review evidence on the Great Moderation together with evidence about volatility trends at the micro level to develop a potential explanation for the decline in aggregate volatility since the 1980s and its consequences. The key elements are declines in firm-level volatility and aggregate...
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exchange rates for time series of sectoral investment. Both theoretically and empirically we show that investment … respect to the share of imported inputs in production. Important differences exist in investment endogeneity across high and … low markup sectors, with investment in low markup sectors often significantly more responsive to exchange rates. Cross …
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the network-specific technology result in a hold-up problem that implements the low-investment equilibrium. And even where … subsidies can avoid such hold-up, optimal monopoly pricing of network usage may avoid investment in the network …
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We show that supply-side financial shocks have a large impact on the investment decisions of firms. We do this by … supply and investment. We show that these idiosyncratic bank shocks explain 40 percent of aggregate loan and investment …
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We estimate a New-Neoclassical Synthesis model of the business cycle with two investment shocks. The first, an … investment-specific technology shock, affects the transformation of consumption into investment goods and is identified with the … relative price of investment. The second shock affects the production of installed capital from investment goods or, more …
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We estimate the effects of peer benchmarking by institutional investors on asset prices. To identify trades purely due to peer benchmarking as separate from those based on fundamentals or private information, we exploit a natural experiment involving a change in a government-imposed...
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Does the presence of arbitrageurs decrease equilibrium asset price volatility? I study an economy with arbitrageurs, informed investors, and noise traders. Arbitrageurs face a trade-off between arbitrage and inference: they would like to buy assets in response to temporary price declines (the...
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We develop a new likelihood-based approach to sign trades in the absence of quotes. It is equally efficient as existing MCMC methods, but more than 10 times faster. It can deal with the occurrence of multiple trades at the same time, and noisily observed trade times. We apply this method to a...
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Do investors confuse the quality of a firm with its attractiveness as an investment? If so, shares of well …
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Ratios that indicate the statistical significance of a fund's alpha typically appraise its performance. A growing literature suggests that even in the absence of any ability to predict returns, holding options positions on the benchmark assets or trading frequently can significantly enhance...
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