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contraction of funds available through credit lines and reduced investment and employment. These dampening effects are explained …
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Anglo-Saxon countries have been successful in the 1990s concerning labor market performance compared to the former role models Germany and Japan. This reversal in relative economic performance might be related to idiosyncracies in financial markets with bank-based financial markets as in Germany...
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Labor market performance has differed considerably between OECD countries over the last two decades. The focus of the literature so far has been to ask whether these differences can be explained by varying degrees of labor market rigidities and generosity of welfare states. This paper takes a...
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incentives to invest in network infrastructure. To this end, we develop a theoretical model explaining investment incentives by …
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This paper examines the investment and financial decisions of a sample of 92 EU regulated utilities, taking into … independence matters for both investment and financial decisions. Investment increases under an Independent Regulatory Agency (IRA … privately controlled. Finally political orientation does matter, as firm investment increases under more conservative (pro …
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investment on the new broadband technology by ~0.45% and ~0.47%. These effects are not homogeneous across countries and are …
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important driver of macroeconomic investment. As an innovation, this paper derives the exact shape of the "hysteretic" impact of … changes in the interest rate on macroeconomic investment under the scenarios of certainty and uncertainty. We capture the … direct interest rate-hysteresis effects on investment and the capital stock and, explicitly, stochastic changes of the …
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The interest rate represents an important monetary policy tool to steer investment in order to reach price stability …. Therefore, implications of the exact form and magnitude of the interest rate-investment nexus for the European Central Bank … impact of changes in the interest rate on macroeconomic investment under certainty and under uncertainty to investigate …
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The interest rate represents an important monetary policy tool to steer investment in order to reach price stability …. Therefore, implications of the exact form and magnitude of the interest rate-investment nexus for the European Central Bank … impact of changes in the interest rate on macroeconomic investment under certainty and under uncertainty to investigate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012041437