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auction model to measure markups, and to illustrate and quantify how the interaction between tax policy and bidder strategic …
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When a bank experiences a negative shock to its equity, one way to return to target leverage is to sell assets. If … asset sales occur at depressed prices, then one bank's sales may impact other banks with common exposures, resulting in … explains how the distribution of bank leverage and risk exposures contributes to a form of systemic risk. We compute bank …
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We provide a framework for studying the relationship between the financial network architecture and the likelihood of systemic failures due to contagion of counterparty risk. We show that financial contagion exhibits a form of phase transition as interbank connections increase: as long as the...
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. Upon the arrival of a signal about banks' future defaults, investors update their expectations of bank solvency. If their …
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to an analysis of fiscal spillovers in the Eurozone, using the calibrated sectoral network structure from the World Input … other large Eurozone countries may be large, and within the range of empirical estimates. More importantly, we find that the … Eurozone production network is very important for the international spillovers. In the absence of international production …
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This article investigates how a firm's financial strength affects its dynamic decision to invest in R&D. We estimate a dynamic model of R&D choice using data for German firms in high-tech manufacturing industries. The model incorporates a measure of the firm's financial strength, derived from...
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We investigate the link between stochastic properties of exchange rates and differences in capital-output ratios across industrialized countries. To this end, we endogenize capital accumulation within a standard model of exchange rate determination with nontraded goods. The model predicts that...
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, accounting for about 20 percent of the tax term's variance. Correcting for the error with IV estimation shows that taxes …
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This paper estimates the micro-level costs of adjusting capital using detailed data on" investment decisions in the US airline industry. The data include the capital stock retirement, market values, operating costs, and utilization rates of 16 different types of capital" goods for each airline....
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This paper develops a theoretical model of firm behavior consistent with the maximization of shareholder utility, and derives empirically testable implications of different theories of equity finance. Using data on firm earnings and previous investment and financial behavior, we assess whether...
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