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are relaxed, the empirical support for the CAPM is very strong. When human capital is also included in measuring wealth …
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We construct a model where capital competes with fiat money as a medium of exchange, and we establish conditions on … fundamentals under which fiat money can be both valued and socially beneficial. When the socially efficient stock of capital is too … Rule, fiat money provides just enough liquidity so that agents choose to accumulate the same capital stock a social planner …
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organization capital. Theory suggests that where plants are in the life cycle determines the size of the payments, or dividends …, plant owners receive from organization capital. These payments are compensation for the interest cost to plant owners of … payments plant owners receive from physical capital, net of new investment, and more than 40% of payments from all forms of …
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Does macroeconomic volatility/uncertainty affect accumulation of net foreign assets? In OECD economies over the period 1970-2012, changes in country specific aggregate volatility are, after controlling for a wide array of factors, significantly positively associated with net foreign asset...
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We construct a quantitative equilibrium model with price setting and use it to ask whether with staggered price setting monetary shocks can generate business cycle fluctuations. These fluctuations include persistent output fluctuations along with the other defining features of business cycles,...
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Previous research has suggested that discrete and occasional plant-level capital adjustments have significant aggregate … equilibrium environment. Specifically, assuming nonconvex costs of capital adjustment, I derive generalized (S,s) adjustment rules …
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We examine whether the Mortensen-Pissarides matching model can account for the business cycle facts on employment, job creation, and job destruction. A novel feature of our analysis is its emphasis on the reduced-form implications of the matching model. Our main finding is that the model can...
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Recent developments in business cycle theory are reviewed. The principal finding is that the growth model, which was developed to account for the secular patterns in important economic aggregates, displays the business cycle phenomena once it incorporates the observed randomness in the rate of...
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investment wedge as a tax on investment is equivalent to representing this wedge as a tax on capital income as long as the …
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This paper considers whether short-period deterministic cycles can exist in a class of stationary overlapping generations models with long- (but finite-) lived agents. It shows that if agents discount the future positively, then as life spans get large, nonmonetary cycles will disappear....
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