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Private Investment and Government Protection

Kousky, Carolyn - 2006

There is usually considerable uncertainty about the amount of investment that will accompany any level of protection …

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Comparing the Investment Behavior of Public and Private Firms

Asker, John - 2011

We evaluate differences in investment behavior between stock market listed and privately held firms in the U.S. using a … rich new data source on private firms. Listed firms invest less and are less responsive to changes in investment … firms, how we measure investment opportunities, lifecycle differences, or our matching criteria. We suggest that the …

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Is Poland the Next Spain?

Caselli, Francesco - 2005

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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Collective Choice and Voluntary Provision of Public Goods

Epple, Dennis - 2000

Some public goods are provided entirely with private contributions, others with a mixture of public and private funding, and still others are entirely publicly funded. To explain this variation, a model of dual provision is developed that endogenizes public and private funding. Members of the...

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The Bail-In Problem : Systematic Goals, Ad Hoc Means

Eichengreen, Barry - 2000

In this paper we analyze the recent efforts of the international financial institutions to limit the moral hazard created by their assistance to crisis countries. We question the wisdom of the case-by-case approach taken in Pakistan, Ecuador, Romania and Ukraine. We show that because default and...

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Is Public R&D a Complement or Substitute for Private R&D? A Review of the Econometric Evidence

David, Paul A. - 1999

Is public R&D spending complementary and thus "additional" to private R&D spending, or does it substitute for and tend to "crowd out" private R&D? Conflicting answers are given to this question. We survey the body of available economectric evidence accumulated over the past 35 years. A framework...

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The Secular Decline in Private Firm Leverage

Dobridge, Christine L.; Gilje, Erik P.; Whitten, Andrew - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

private firms is correlated with lower investment. Our findings have important implications for theories on how firm leverage … and investment relate to economic fluctuations …

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From Scarcity to Abundance : Government and Private Initiatives to Manage the Allocation of N95 Masks in the U.S. During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Joskow, Paul L. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

This paper examines the structure, behavior and performance of the N95 respirator market in the U.S. before and during the COVID-19 pandemic (2020-early 2022). It focuses on the behavior and performance of government and private sector organizations in the allocation of scarce supplies of N95...

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Why Are Returns to Private Business Wealth So Dispersed?

Boar, Corina; Gorea, Denis; Midrigan, Virgiliu - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

We use micro data from Orbis on firm level balance sheets and income statements to document that accounting returns for privately held businesses are dispersed, persistent, and negatively correlated with firm equity. We also show that firms experience large, fat-tailed, and partly transitory...

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An Analysis of Public and Private Sector Wages Allowing for Endogenous Choices of Both Government and Union Status

Gyourko, Joseph - 1986

Studies of public/private sector wage differentials typically assume that the govenment and union status of a worker are exogenous variables. Recently, some studies have relaxed this assumption slightly by allowing the union status to be endogenous. In this paper, we consider a more general...

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