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dispersion in the rates of return to investment. During bubbly episodes, unproductiveinvestors demand bubbles while productive … investors supply them. Because of this, bubbly episodeschannel resources towards productive investment raising the growth rates … of capital and output. Themodel also illustrates that the existence of bubbly episodes requires some investment to be …
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its plant-level investment and exit decisions. …
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This paper analyzes how agency problems in nancial contracting determine risk-taking andinvestment. In perfect capital markets a risk-neutral rm would invest until the expectedmarginal return equals the interest rate. However, as rms with little net-worth face agencycost in nancial contracting...
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This website of the Nederlandsche Bank (DNB) provides monetary and financial statistics for the Netherlands.
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access to a risky but high return capital production technology. Capital investment must be partially externally financed via …
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bonds is a complement to domestic investment rather than asubstitute. We show that this complementarity is at work when an … imbalances and with a number of stylized facts such as high corporate saving rates inhigh-growth, high-investment, emerging …
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In this paper we show that vocational training is an important determinant of productivitygrowth. We construct a multi-country, multi-sectoral dataset, and quantify empirically to whatextent vocational training has contributed to increase the growth rate of labor productivity inEurope between...
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Estimates of the marginal product of capital can help forecast economic growth, test competing businesscycle theories, and perform cost-benefit analysis. This paper presents annual and quarterly estimatesof the marginal product of capital in the U.S. separately for the residential and...
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In a neoclassical economy with endogenous capital- and labor-augmentingtechnical change the steady-state growth rate of output per worker is shown to increasein the elasticity of substitution between capital and labor. This conrms theassessment of Klump and de La Grandville (2000) that the...
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This paper proposes a theory for the gradual evolution of knowl-edge diffusion and growth over the very long run. A feedback mechanismbetween capital accumulation and the ease of knowledge diffusion explains along epoch of (quasi-) stasis and an epoch of high growth linked by a grad-ual economic...
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