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Business Cycle Effects of Credit and Technology Shocks in a DSGE Model with Firm Defaults
Pesaran, M. Hashem - 2011
This paper proposes a theoretical framework to analyze the impacts of credit and technology shocks on business cycle … financial institutions in the transmission of credit and technology shocks to the real economy. A positive credit shock, defined … between loan and deposit rates. The effects of the credit shock tend to be highly persistent even without price rigidities and …
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The Interdependence of R&D Activity and Debt Financing of Young Firms
Fryges, Helmut - 2011
We investigate the interdependence of debt financing and R&D activities of young firms. Using micro-level data of the KfW/ZEW Start-up Panel, our estimation results show that firm characteristics are more important than personal characteristics of the founders for explaining young firms'...
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Hidden Insurance in a Moral Hazard Economy
Bertola, Giuseppe - 2013
We consider an economy where individuals privately choose effort and trade competitively priced securities that pay off with effort-determined probability. We show that if insurance against a negative shock is sufficiently incomplete, then standard functional form restrictions ensure that...
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Corporate Efficiency, Credit Status and Investment
Quader, Manzur - 2014
's constrained credit status changes with the improvement of its efficiency. The results further reveal that financially constrained …
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Business Conditions and Default Risks Across Countries
Pflüger, Michael - 2011
The risk of default that business firms face is very significant and differs widely across countries. This paper explores the links between countries' business conditions and international trade embedment and the default risk at the country level from a theoretical point of view. Our main...
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The Price of Capital, Factor Substitutability, and Corporate Profits
Hergovich, Philipp - 2018
The capital-to-labor ratio has steadily risen in the U.S. and elsewhere during the post-WWII period. Since the 1970s this rise has been accompanied by a rise in the level and variability of corporate profits whereas the labor share of income has declined. In this paper we ask whether these...
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Is There Too Little Immigration?
Bandyopadhyay, Subhayu; Wall, Howard J. - 2007
This paper presents a model of legal migration from one source country to two host countries, both of which can control their levels of immigration. Because of complementarities between capital and labor, the return on capital is positively related to the level of immigration. Consequently, when...
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A Nonparametric Examination of Capital-Skill Complementarity
Henderson, Daniel J. - 2021
This paper uses nonparametric kernel methods to construct observation-specific elasticities of substitution for a balanced panel of 73 developed and developing countries to examine the capital-skill complementarity hypothesis. The exercise shows some support for capital-skill complementarity,...
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The Value of Business Networks in Emerging Economies : An Analysis of Firms' External Financing Opportunities
Owolabi, Oluwarotimi Ayokunnu - 2011
The paper argues that networked firms are likely to have an advantage in securing external finance in countries with weak legal and judicial institutions since it helps financial institutions to minimize the underlying agency costs of lending. An analysis of recent BEEPS data from fifteen...
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Displacement and Debt : The Role of Debt in Returning to Work in the Period Following the Great Recession
Bednarzik, Robert - 2017
The onset of the housing and subsequent financial crisis in 2008 marked the steepest economic downturn in the United. States, since the Great Depression in the late 1920s and 1930s. This most recent financial crisis has been characterized by massive layoffs and displacement. Given the depth of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012956016