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ofliquidity shocks and credit constraints, investment by entrepreneurs with long-termprojects is depressed. The behavior of these … entrepreneurs has two other importantfeatures: (i) their demand for bonds is "excessive"; (ii) bonds and long-term invest-ment are … investment in long-term projects,while it has a negative effect on investment in short-term projects which are not sub-mitted to …
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overhang level of debt is reached: (i) investment falls precipitously as it should when it becomes optimal to default, (ii …-empt default and exact punitive interest rates. We find a systematic response of investment, particularly when property rights are … with concessional rates. Thus, while debt relief is likely to improve economic policy (and especially investment) in …
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This paper constructs a two-country stochastic growth model in which neutraland investment-specic technology shocks are … estimated with these data, revealsthat the EA missed out on the rapid investment-specic technological change enjoyedin the US …
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How important is financial development for economic development? A costly state verification modelof financial intermediation is presented to address this question. The model is calibrated to match factsabout the U.S. economy, such as intermediation spreads and the firm-size distribution for the...
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This paper examines the interactions between Foreign Direct Investment (FDI), inequality, and growth, both from a …
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In an inuential article Tornell and Lane (1999) considered an economy populatedby multiple powerful groups in which property rights in the formal sectorof production are not protected. They obtained conditions under which thegroups appropriate output from the formal sector in order to invest it...
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, in a manner that depends crucially on the variance-covariance properties of investment returns, rather than on their …
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We examine the interaction between foreign aid and binding borrowing constraint for arecipient country. We also analyze how these two instruments affect economic growth vianon-linear relationships. First of all, we develop a two-country, two-period trade-theoreticmodel to develop testable...
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This paper proposes a model that links households and firms, as usual, by markets forfactors and goods and, additionally, by a banking sector that channels households’funds to firms and eliminates idiosyncratic risk. In equilibrium, agency costs and taxbenefits of corporate debt are equalizing...
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This report is a part of our study “The Emergence of Indian Multinationals: An Empirical Study of Motives, Status-quo and Trends of Indian Investments in Germany”. The study was conducted under the aegis of our “Research Project Global Innovation” at the Institute of Technology and...
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