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In a dynamic general equilibrium setup, this paper highlights the role of vintages and creative destruction in business fluctuations. By stressing the forward-looking characteristic of the optimal scrapping rule, we use a standard rational expectations argument to show the constancy of the...
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Most traditional explanations for the decreasing aggregate output volatility - so-called "Great Moderation" - fail to … accommodate, or even directly contradict, another aspect of empirical data: the average sales volatility for publicly-traded US … volatility divergence. Firms in the modern economy have been investing heavily in intangible and organizational assets, such as R …
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consumption volatility currently observed. This paper proposes that the ex-ante component of cost is important and large. The … formulation suggests that stabilization policy mitigates the effects of aggregate volatility by offering important insurance … against aggregate volatility. Stabilization policy is then a public good which enables individual agents to reduce the private …
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The paper investigates how results obtained with standard CGE models can be improved by incorporating the effects of R&D activity in a recursively-dynamic CGE model built for the economy of the Czech Republic. The main objective of the paper is to quantify the impact of R&D activity on the...
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The paper investigates how results obtained with standard CGE models can be improved by incorporating the effects of R&D activity in a recursively-dynamic CGE model built for the economy of the Czech Republic. The main objective of the paper is to quantify the impact of R&D activity on the...
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called New Keynesian Paradigm (NKM). This paper applies Bayesian estimation techniques to a time series data set of the euro … then serve as a benchmark for an estimation of a QUEST specification. In fact in some dimensions the QUEST model may need …
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The formation of the European Union (EU) is the one of the biggest political – economic events of the last 50 years. The aim of this study is to develop EU economy functioning system dynamic model. Main research method is system dynamics. General scheme of EU economy system dynamic model is...
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Este artículo pretende determinar qué conjunto de rigideces nominales y reales se debe incluir en un modelo DSGE para replicar la dinámica de las variables agregadas de la economía colombiana. Con este fin, se estiman varios modelos DSGE con distintas combinaciones de rigideces nominales y...
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We study the effects of credit shocks in a model with heterogeneous entrepreneurs, financing constraints, and a realistic firm-size distribution. As entrepreneurial firms can grow only slowly and rely heavily on retained earnings to expand the size of their business, we show that, by reducing...
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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 emprirical investment equations, and to investigate the role played by financial factors in each country.
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