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household income. Nationwide, 15% of U.S. households have a heat pump as their primary heating equipment, and adoption levels …
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Over the last two decades, U.S. households have received $47 billion in tax credits for buying heat pumps, solar panels, electric vehicles, and other "clean energy" technologies. Using information from tax returns, we show that these tax credits have gone predominantly to higher-income...
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This paper begins by identifying nominal price stickiness as the logical basis for the Keynesian or activist point of view concerning demand management policy. It then characterizes two alternative approaches to policy analysis that have been adopted by adherents of the Keynesian position, the...
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reallocation of capital across sectors is costly. The two-sector model leads to a richer array of possible responses of aggregate …
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This paper revisits capital-skill complementarity and inequality, as in Krusell, Ohanian, Rios-Rull and Violante (KORV …. We find strong evidence for continued capital-skill complementarity in the most recent data, and that the model continues …
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The paper begins with presentation of a methodology for computing rental costs of capital under any tax regime.Tax law … inflation on interest rates and the allocation of real capital. The model allocates a fixed private capital stock among various … classes of nonresidential and residential capital, depending upon the rental costs for the capital components, the price …
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Second, even in the absence of fiscal costs, public debt reduces capital accumulation, and may therefore have welfare …-adjusted rate of return to capital. If it is lower than the growth rate, it indicates that the risk-adjusted rate of return to … capital is in fact low. The average risky rate however also plays a role. I show how both the average risky rate and the …
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by machines or software. Few have discussed the implications of the reverse: firms' ability to replace capital with … a simple real options model where permissive labor regulations allow firms to take advantage of capital …-labor substitutability by replacing 'rigid' capital with 'flexible' labor. The model highlights institutional, technological, and …
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neoclassical model of investment with physical capital, quasi-fixed labor, and two types of intangible capital, knowledge and brand … capital as inputs. We estimate the structural model using firm-level data on U.S. publicly traded firms and use the estimated … input for firm value varies across industries and over time. On average, physical capital accounts for 30% to 40% of firm …
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effects of target-setting on capital allocation, in a context in which such concerns have risen to particular prominence in …
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