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In this paper, we investigate the effect of real estate prices on productive investment. We build a simple theoretical … framework of firms' investment with credit rationing and real estate collateral. We show that real estate prices affect firms … the second channel allows for heterogeneous effects of real estate prices on investment across firms.We test our …
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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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In this paper, we present a simple model in which a unionized and non-unionized firm optimally make investment …
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of the minimum wage on human capital investment rates and no overall effects on fixed capital investment rates. When …
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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 …
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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 …
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study, I examine how introducing a time delay into the execution of an investment plan influences individuals' risk … outset, in the Decision Stage (Stage 1), each subject was asked to make an investment plan by splitting a monetary investment … amount between a risky asset and a safe asset. Subjects were informed that the investment plans they made in the Decision …
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Consumption expenditure declines sharply at the time of retirement for many households, but the majority maintain a smooth consumption path. A simple life cycle model with uncertainty about the time of retirement can account for this pattern. A richer version of the model is calibrated to data...
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We study workers' idiosyncratic earnings risk over the life-cycle using a German administrative data set. Positive and negative earnings shocks both contain a highly persistent component. The variance and average size of positive persistent shocks is decreasing over the life-cycle. The...
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This paper advances a structural inter-temporal model of labour supply that is able to simulate the dynamics of labour supply in a continuous setting and to circumvent two main drawbacks of most of the existing models. The first limitation is the inability to incorporate individual heterogeneity...
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