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the effects of migration on the accumulation of both knowledge and human capital, by invoking endogenous growth theory …
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We study the implications of product market competition and investment for price setting, wage bargaining and thereby …
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competitors. Because workers participate in the returns on investment while only firms bear the costs, investment is inefficiently … low. A binding minimum wage can achieve the first-best level of investment, both in the short run for a given number of …
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easing entrepreneurial investments for credit-constrained individuals whose investment possibilities depend on their income … entrepreneurial elite, resulting in economic policy and institutions which are more conducive to entrepreneurship and productivity …
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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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Economists traditionally tackle normative problems by computing optimal policy, i.e. the one that maximizes a social welfare function. In practice, however, a succession of marginal changes to a limited number of policy instruments are implemented, until no further improvement is feasible. I...
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We present evidence that an increase in investment as a share of GDP predicts a higher growth rate of output per worker … coefficients. They are robust to model specifications and estimation methods. The evidence that investment has a long-run effect on …
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dynamics as investment conditions are similar. Our results are consistent with this hypothesis. Furthermore, there is no …
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banking development reduces the cash flow sensitivity of fixed investment spending, particularly for small firms, and that it …
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role of rising rates of investment. Because labor reallocation across sectors, TFP growth at the sector level and … investment are all inter-related, simple growth decompositions that are often used in the literature are not appropriate for … continues to absorb more than half of all fixed investment. If capital had been allocated efficiently, China could have achieved …
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