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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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Interprovincial Migration in China : The Effects of Investment and Migrant Networks

Bao, Shuming; Bodvarsson, Orn B.; Hou, Jack W; Zhao, Yaohui - 2021

Since the 1980s, China's government has eased restrictions on internal migration. This easing, along with rapid growth of the Chinese economy and substantial increases in foreign and domestic investments, has greatly stimulated internal migration. Earlier studies have established that migration...

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Financing Entrepreneurship and the Old-Boy Network

Inci, Eren - 2012

We study entrepreneurs' start-up financing from banks and local financiers. An informal network, whose membership cannot be observed by outsiders, conveys the good signals it gets about the hidden types of network entrepreneurs to local financiers, which are then reflected in different loan...

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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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Migration, International Trade and Capital Formation : Cause or Effect?

Felbermayr, Gabriel J. - 2012

the effects of migration on the accumulation of both knowledge and human capital, by invoking endogenous growth theory …

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Migration, Capital Formation, and House Prices

Grossmann, Volker - 2013

We investigate the effects of interregional labor market integration in a two-sector, overlapping-generations model with land-intensive production in the non-tradable goods sector (housing). To capture the response to migration on housing supply, capital formation is endogenous, assuming that...

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Unions and Firms' Investments : A Unified View

Berton, Fabio - 2019

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

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A Decline in Labor's Share with Capital Accumulation and Complementary Factor Inputs : An Application of the Morishima Elasticity of Substitution

Paul, Saumik - 2019

The role of capital accumulation as a driver of the labor income share requires capital and labor to be substitutes, which appears paradoxical in a world predominantly characterized by complementarity between capital and labor. This paper argues that the composition of skills in the labor force...

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Untimely Destruction : Pestilence, War and Accumulation in the Long Run

Bell, Clive - 2019

This paper analyses the effects of disease and war on the accumulation of human and physical capital. We employ an overlapping-generations frame-work in which young adults, confronted with such hazards and motivated by old-age provision and altruism, make decisions about investments in schooling...

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Partial Insurance and Investments in Children

Carneiro, Pedro Manuel - 2015

This paper studies the impact of permanent and transitory shocks to income on parental investments in children. We use panel data on family income, and an index of investments in children in time and goods, from the Children of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth. Consistent with the...

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