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Interest Rate Hysteresis in Macroeconomic Investment Under Uncertainty

Belke, Ansgar Hubertus - 2019

The interest rate is generally considered as an important driver of macroeconomic investment. As an innovation, this … paper derives the exact shape of the "hysteretic" impact of changes in the interest rate on macroeconomic investment under … capital stock and, explicitly, of stochastic changes on the interest rate-investment hysteresis. Starting with hysteresis …

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Interest Rate Bands of Inaction and Play-Hysteresis in Domestic Investment : Evidence for the Euro Area

Belke, Ansgar Hubertus - 2019

The interest rate represents an important monetary policy tool to steer investment in order to reach price stability …. Therefore, implications of the exact form and magnitude of the interest rate-investment nexus for the European Central Bank … impact of changes in the interest rate on macroeconomic investment under certainty and under uncertainty to investigate …

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Corporate Efficiency, Credit Status and Investment

Quader, Manzur - 2014

firm's investment is comparatively more sensitive to cash flow, but this sensitivity is negatively and significantly … related with corporate efficiency. These results point to the fact that high investment sensitivity to cash flow may not be … solely driven by measurement error in investment opportunity, but may still be interpreted as a consequence of imperfect …

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Foreign Ownership and Firm Survival:First Evidence for Enterprises in Germany

Wagner, Joachim; Weche Gelübcke, John Philipp - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn>

This paper documents the relationship between foreign ownership and firm survival forenterprises in Germany using unique tailor-made new representative data that mergeinformation from surveys performed by the Statistical Offices, from administrative datacollected by the Tax Authorities and from...

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Temporary Shocks and Offshoring: The Role ofExternal Economies and Firm Heterogeneity

Mitra, Devashish; Ranjan, Priya - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

We construct a model of offshoring with externalities and firm heterogeneity. Due to thepresence of externalities, temporary shocks like the Y2K problem can have permanenteffects, i.e., they can permanently raise the extent of offshoring in an industry. Also, the initialadvantage of a country as...

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Exports and Productivity Growth:First Evidence from a Continuous Treatment Approach

Fryges, Helmut; Wagner, Joachim - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

A recent survey of 54 micro-econometric studies reveals that exporting firms are moreproductive than non-exporters. On the other hand, previous empirical studies show thatexporting does not necessarily improve productivity. One possible reason for this result isthat most previous studies are...

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Labor Market Effects of Trade and FDI : Recent Advances and Research Gaps

Pflüger, Michael - 2010

This paper pursues three aims. First, we provide a review of current theoretical advances which pertain to the relationship between trade, FDI and labor markets. We do so under the following (not mutually exclusive) headings: (1) slicing-up the value added chain and the turn to a task-based...

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Foreign Acquisitions, Domestic Multinationals, and R&D

Bandick, Roger - 2010

The aim of this paper is to evaluate the causal effect of foreign acquisition on R&D intensity in targeted domestic firms. We are able to distinguish domestic multinationals and non-multinationals, which allows us to investigate the fear that the change in ownership of domestic to foreign...

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Do Foreign-Owned Firms Provide Better Working Conditions than Their Domestic Counterparts? A Comparative Analysis

Hijzen, Alexander - 2010

This paper analyses to what extent working conditions in foreign-owned firms differ from those in their domestic counterparts. It makes three main contributions. First, we replicate the consensus in the empirical literature by applying a standardised methodology to firm-level data for three...

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Foreign Ownership and Firm Survival : First Evidence for Enterprises in Germany

Wagner, Joachim - 2011

This paper documents the relationship between foreign ownership and firm survival for enterprises in Germany using unique tailor-made new representative data that merge information from surveys performed by the Statistical Offices, from administrative data collected by the Tax Authorities and...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013117183

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