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We combine a structural model with cross-sectional micro data to identify the causes and consequences of rising concentration in the US economy. Using asset prices and industry data, we estimate realized and anticipated shocks that drive entry and concentration. We validate our approach by...
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Motivated by the increasing interest in analyzing the links between the financial sector and the real economy, we develop a macro-financial structural model with two novel features. First, we include idiosyncratic and aggregate risk in a tractable general equilibrium model. This allows us to...
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-search theory: under standard calibrations models without OTJ search generate implausibly low unemployment volatility, while models …
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This paper provides empirical evidence on the response of labor productivity to the arrival of new inventions. The benchmark measure of technological progress is given by data on patent applications in the U.S. over the period 1889-2002. The analysis shows that labor productivity may temporarily...
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area vulnerable to a negative shock that tips the economy into a prolonged slowdown …
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additional channel through which rising trade tensions and sluggish productivity could threaten real investment growth going …
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This paper uses a computable general equilibrium model of the economy of Trinidad and Tobago to assess the effects of trade liberalization and terms-of-trade shocks on the real exchange rate and the overall fiscal position of the government. The model is also used to evaluate the implications of...
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This paper contributes to the debate on the relationship between public-capital accumulation and private investment in … the past three decades, we study whether public investment in recent years has become more or less complementary to … private investment in comparison to the period before 1980. Second, we construct a novel data-set of quarterly aggregate …
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In this paper, we first introduce investment-specific technology (IST) shocks to an otherwise standard international … the relative price of investment to build and estimate these IST processes across the U.S and a ""rest of the world …
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We undertake a quantitative analysis of the dispersion of current accounts in an open economy version of incomplete insurance model, incorporating important market frictions in trade and financial flows. Calibrated with conventional parameter values, the stochastic stationary equilibrium of the...
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