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The confluence of three trends in the U.S. residential housing market---rising home prices, declining interest rates, and near-frictionless refinancing opportunities---led to vastly increased systemic risk in the financial system. Individually, each of these trends is benign, but when they occur...
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Private ownership should generally be preferred to public ownership when the incentives to innovate and to contain … the role of prices under socialism and capitalism and ignored the enormous importance of ownership as the source of … addressed through government contacting and regulation without resort to government ownership. The case for private provision …
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's government uses linear taxation to fund exogenous expenditures and uses public debt to inter-temporally allocate tax distortions …. We characterize a class of environments in which the tax on labor goes to zero in the long run, while the tax on capital …
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We document how a plant-specific shock to investment opportunities at one plant of a firm ("treated plant") spills over to other plants of the same firm--but only if the firm is financially constrained. While the shock triggers an increase in investment and employment at the treated plant, this...
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of substitution between capital and labor less than one. This is inconsistent with the Uzawa Growth Theorem. We extend … Uzawa's theorem to show that the introduction of human capital accumulation in the standard way does not resolve the puzzle …. However, balanced growth is possible if schooling is endogenous and capital is more complementary with schooling than with raw …
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We study the dynamic taxation of capital and labor in the Ramsey model under the assumption that taxes and public good … viewpoint of the citizens involves long-run capital taxation …
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Capital reallocation is procyclical, despite measured productive reallocative opportunities being acyclical, or even … countercyclical. This paper reviews the advances in the literature studying the causes and consequences of capital reallocation (or … lack thereof). We provide a comprehensive set of capital reallocation stylized facts for the US, and an illustrative model …
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by machines or software. Few have discussed the implications of the reverse: firms' ability to replace capital with … a simple real options model where permissive labor regulations allow firms to take advantage of capital …-labor substitutability by replacing ‘rigid' capital with ‘flexible' labor. The model highlights institutional, technological, and …
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given the latest vintage machine all of the time. Inequality thus originates in the limited capacity of the capital goods …If machines are indivisible, a vintage capital model must give rise to income inequality. If new machines are always … without frictions, a perfect positive assignment between the quality of labor and of capital can be maintained by a process of …
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reallocation of capital across sectors is costly. The two-sector model leads to a richer array of possible responses of aggregate …
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