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We investigate how labor and investment demand at the firm level (gross as well as net and replacement investment … for the important changes and differences in labor and investment demand between the two subperiods and across the three …
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incorporates both output (sales or turnover) and cash flow as predictors for investment. Our focus is on two comparisons: France …This paper is a contribution to the small but growing literature that compares the investment and R&D behavior of … of a simple error-corrected investment model for both ordinary investment and for R&D investment, a model that …
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This paper starts from two sets of facts about Continental Europe.The first is the steady increase in unemployment since the early 1970s. The second is the evolution of the capital share, an initial decline in the 1970s, followed by a much larger increase since the mid-1980s. The paper then...
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We construct company panel datasets for manufacturing firms in Belgium, France, Germany and the UK, covering the period … 1978-89. These datasets are used to estimate a range of empirical investment equations, and to investigate the role played … the suggestion that financial constraints on investment may be relatively severe in the more market-oriented UK financial …
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Over the past century the long-run growth of six economies shows a strong association between investment in machinery …, and that a high rate of machinery investment is a necessary prerequisite for rapid long-run productivity growth - a …
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and investment. However, for growth, higher inequality tends to retard growth in poor countries and encourage growth in …
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This essay discusses the reasons for and implications of the decline in real interest rates around the world over the past several decades. It suggests that the decline in interest rates is largely explicable from trends in saving, growth, and markups. In this environment, greater government...
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features of the world at present are the low rates of investment and growth in some of the richest countries, whose surpluses … account for about half of the US deficit. The result is that financial capital is flowing out of countries with low investment …
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growth. Investment growth has dominated GDP growth in China during this decade but is also important in the cases of India … and Vietnam. <br> <br>To examine the global implications of domestic growth patterns in Asia, I analyze saving-investment … region. In terms of sheer magnitudes, China's national savings and current account surpluses dominate the region's saving-investment …
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We review evidence on the Great Moderation in conjunction with evidence about volatility trends at the micro level. We combine the two types of evidence to develop a tentative story for important components of the aggregate volatility decline and its consequences. The key ingredients are...
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