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This paper documents four basic facts about investment goods and investment prices. First, investment has a very …, and transportation) are much less important for investment than for consumption. Third, the import content of investment …
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To update a famous old statistic: a political leader in a developing country is almost twice as likely to lose office in the 6 months following a currency crash as otherwise. This difference, which is highly significant statistically, holds regardless whether the devaluation takes place in the...
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Large devaluations are generally associated with large declines in real exchange rates. We develop a model which embodies two complementary forces that account for the large declines in the real exchange rate that occur in the aftermath of large devaluations. The first force is sticky...
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Innovative activity is highly concentrated in a handful of advanced countries. These same countries are also the major exporters of capital goods to the rest of the world. We develop a model of trade in capital goods to assess its role spreading the benefits of technological advances. Applying...
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Using a sample of 32 developed and developing countries we analyze the empirical characteristics of sudden stops in capital flows and the relevance of balance sheet effects in the likelihood of their materialization. We find that large real exchange rate (RER) fluctuations coming hand in hand...
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This paper estimates the micro-level costs of adjusting capital using detailed data onquot; investment decisions in the …; profitability. The results show clear evidence of non-convex adjustment costs inaction for capital investment and quadratic … adjustment costs conditional on positive or negativequot; investment. The adjustment costs for utilization show similar non …
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variety of tests for world financial capital market integration ranging from the correlation of saving and investment …
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, profitability, investment, and stock returns for firms in the 'crisis' country as well as competitors in the rest of the world … capital investment and stock returns (and therefore expected long-run output and profits) is determined by capital …
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find that policy uncertainty raises stock price volatility and reduces investment and employment in policy … foreshadow declines in investment, output, and employment in the United States and, in a panel VAR setting, for 12 major …
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The optimal investment to mitigate climate change crucially depends on the discount rate used to evaluate the … investment's uncertain future benefits. The appropriate discount rate is a function of the horizon over which these benefits … accrue and the riskiness of the investment. In this paper, we estimate the term structure of discount rates for an important …
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