This study empirically examines the fragility of five major Asian economies (China, Hong Kong, India, Japan, and South … asymmetric effect on macro variables of China, Hong Kong, and South Korea during the quantitative easing period (QE) and the …

, especially those related to having an open capital account, do not loom large in the case of China. In the process of securing …

The decisions of firms on investment and hiring play a crucial role in business cycle fluctuations. This paper explores … investment costs. It is significant and negatively signed, implying complementarity between investment and hiring. There is a … the investment part of the model is poor if hiring is left out completely or is introduced without the interaction between …

In this paper, we present a simple model in which a unionized and non-unionized firm optimally make investment …

study, I examine how introducing a time delay into the execution of an investment plan influences individuals' risk …Attitudes toward risk underlie virtually every important economic decision an individual makes. In this experimental … outset, in the Decision Stage (Stage 1), each subject was asked to make an investment plan by splitting a monetary investment …

reduces owners' capital investment – we find that granting formal control rights to workers raises capital formation. The … relations whereby shared governance raises capital by permitting workers to bargain over investment or by institutionalizing …

A longstanding challenge in evaluating the impact of uncertainty on investment is obtaining measures of managers … the U.S. Census Bureau for approximately 25,000 manufacturing plants. We find three key results. First, investment is … associated with about a 6% reduction in investment. Second, uncertainty is also negatively related to employment growth and …

positive program treatment effect on employment, investment and net entry but not on TFP. OLS underestimates program effects …,300 suggesting that in some respects investment subsidies can be cost effective …