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adjustment function implies that aggregate investment is relatively unresponsive to aggregate shocks in deep recessions as …
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,` usually identified as a low rate of investment in research and development (RD) compared with some high-innovation countries …There is a common perception that low productivity or low growth is due to what can be called an `innovation shortfall …. The usual reaction to this perceived problem is to call for increases in RD investment rates, usually specifying a target …
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an experiment based on two-stage games, where R&D investment choices are followed by product market competition. An …
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carry out experiments based on two-stage games, where R&D investment choices are followed by product market competition. As …
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This paper provides a critique of the "unemployment invariance hypothesis", according to which the behavior of the labor market ensures that the long-run unemployment rate is independent of the size of the capital stock, productivity and the labor force. Using Solow growth and endogenous growth...
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This study assesses macroeconomic volatility in Costa Rica, based largely on politically weak governments` inability or unwillingness to effect key reforms. Notable problems include volatility-prone fiscal and monetary policy, structurally weak public finances due to large domestic debts and...
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This paper investigates the relationship between telecommunications infrastructure competition, investment and …, amongst other things, emanated from encouraging infrastructure investment, in their production processes. Thus the analysis … demonstrates that U.K. government policies on telecommunications and its investment incentives may have wide-reaching consequences …
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Investment-driven growth has long been regarded as a key development strategy in China. This paper investigates … become a regular force in driving investment since reforms, that non-demand-driven investment growth contributes to … increasing capital-output ratio far more than output growth, that government investment exerts a pivotal role in amplifying …
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and investment high. It finds that the low cost of capital has been quantitatively an important factor. Theory predicts … rebalance growth towards relying more on consumption and less on exports and investment, banking sector reforms and financial …
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channel to investment as a key transmission mechanism for monetary policy. Our analysis sheds light on institutional …
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