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firm characteristics - Tobin's Q, past investment, earnings-price ratios, market betas, and idiosyncratic volatility of … returns by aggregate investment and valuation ratios; and v) a downward sloping term structure of risk premia for dividend … strips. Our model delivers testable predictions about the behavior of firm-level real variables - investment and output …
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We estimate the effects of technology investments on the demand for skilled workers using longitudinally integrated employer-employee data from the U.S. Census Bureau's Longitudinal Employer-Household Dynamics Program infrastructure files spanning two Economic Censuses (1992 and 1997). We...
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Using administrative data from the United States, we document novel stylized facts regarding technological innovation … and the riskiness of labor income. Higher rates of industry innovation are associated with significant increases in labor … earnings for top workers. Decomposing this result, we find that own firm innovation is associated with a modest increase in the …
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choice between incremental and radical innovation, and on how managers of different ages and human capital are sorted across … measures of creative innovations proxy for innovation quality (average number of citations per patent) and creativity (fraction …
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We revisit Western Europe's record with labor-productivity convergence, and tentatively extrapolate its implications for the future path of Eastern Europe. The poorer Western European countries caught up with the richer ones through both higher rates of physical capital accumulation and greater...
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the social returns to other types of investment, any new climate mitigation R&D that comes at the expense of other R …&D investment may dampen the overall gains from induced technological change. Unfortunately, there has been little empirical work to …
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investment-specific technology shocks in generating fluctuations in hours. Using a neoclassical stochastic growth model, we show …
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We examine the concerns that new technologies will render labor redundant in a framework in which tasks previously performed by labor can be automated and new versions of existing tasks, in which labor has a comparative advantage, can be created. In a static version where capital is fixed and...
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We estimate and compare the production structures of the US, Japanese, and Korean total manufacturing sectors for the 1974-1990 period. We employ a translog variable cost function that includes such inputs as labor, materials, physical and R&D capital with the physical and R&D capital treated as...
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Recent empirical evidence identifies investment shocks as key driving forces behind business cycle fluctuations … between consumption growth and investment growth, a weak positive unconditional correlation between consumption growth and … short-run contractionary effect a positive investment shock on consumption. Such counterfactual co-movements are typical of …
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