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Using vector autoregressions on U.S. time series for 1957-1979 and 1983-2004, we find government spending shocks to have stronger effects on output, consumption, and wages in the earlier sample. We try to account for this observation within a DSGE model featuring price rigidities and limited...
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We analyse the impact of fiscal policy shocks in the euro area as a whole, using a newly available quarterly dataset of fiscal variables for the period 1981-2007. To allow for comparability with previous results on euro area countries and the US, we use a standard structural VAR framework, and...
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macroeconomic effects of public and private investment through VAR analysis. From impulse response functions, we are able to assess … the extent of crowding-in or crowding-out of both components of investment. We also compute the associated macroeconomic … rates of return of public and private investment for each country. The results point mostly to the existence of positive …
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guarantee existence. When investment adjustment costs are introduced, the monetary and fiscal policy dichotomy is in principle …
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The recent great financial crisis and the ensuing deep recessions have placed in sharp relief the fundamental issue of how financial factors, including financial instability, interact with the real economy. In order to understand the nature of these interactions and formulate policies that would...
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This paper analyses the impact of fiscal policy on private investment for a sample of thirty-three LDCs. The paper … first attempt to analyse the existence of a non-linear relationship between fiscal policy variables and investment. Moreover …, we explicitly focus on different aspects of fiscal policy and their influence on investment, instead of only looking at …
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Durch Bereitstellung von Krediten tragen Banken zur Transformation von Finanzkapital in Sachkapital bei. Die Kreditvergabepolitik der Schweizer Banken hat sich im vergangenen Vierteljahrhundert stark gewandelt. Basierend auf einem Datensatz (1987-2012) mit bankengruppenspezifischen Bilanzdaten...
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formulate a model of financing. New Keynesian theory emphasizes that a firm's net worth influences investment decisions and … banks lending reaction to the net worth ratio is more elastic than investment reaction. When the steady state is the saddle …
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This paper is to examine the stock markets role in the capital formation in Pakistan from the period 1st January 2001 to 31st December 2008. This analytical study is based on the data collected from the secondary sources such as State Bank of Pakistan and three stock exchanges; Karachi, Lahore...
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holds for the microeconomic response of some of the most important economic variables, such as investment, labor demand, and … actual response to shocks is less than half as fast as the estimated response. For investment, labor demand and prices, the …, even after aggregating investment across all establishments in U.S. manufacturing, the estimate of its speed of adjustment …
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