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The debate in Australia on the (constant-output) elasticity of labour demand with respect to wages has wrongly sidelined the role of capital stock as a determinant of employment (Webster, 2003). As far back as 1991, Pissarides had argued that the influence of capital stock on the performance of...
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adjustment function implies that aggregate investment is relatively unresponsive to aggregate shocks in deep recessions as …
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Despite the recent increase in foreign direct investment (FDI) to African countries, these resources have not had a … meaningful impact on economic development because of limited effects on domestic factor markets, especially domestic investment … and employment. In this context, this study analyses the two-way linkages between FDI and domestic investment in Sub …
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We argue that positive comovements between land prices and business investment are a driving force behind the broad … joint dynamics of land prices and business investment. …
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guarantee existence. When investment adjustment costs are introduced, the monetary and fiscal policy dichotomy is in principle …
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emerging markets. The paper measures the risk of short-term exposure by estimating, at the firm level, the effect on investment … not find that this reduction in net worth translates into a drop in investment. …
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more favourable loan package; that it is associated with over-investment even when investment does not create collateral …
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We argue that, in a simple setting, the relation between the intensity of competition and cost-reducing investment is U … show that, except for firms that are much less efficient than the competitor, investment in the subgame-perfect equilibrium …
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or positive effects on R&D-investment, respectively. Both possibilities arise in plausible situations, even if one uses … on investment more likely. Extending the basic framework, the paper shows that separation of ownership and control …, endogenous entry and cumulative investments make positive effects of competition on investment more likely. Imperfect upstream …
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on own effort and negatively on the effort of competitors. Such auctions arise naturally in the context of investment … the strategic situation of a two-stage game with investment preceding homogenous Bertrand competition. We obtain …
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