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stagnation of investment, especially private fixed investment, was the primary culprit. I then investigate the causes of the …
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This paper empirically analyzes the political, institutional and economic sources of public deficit volatility. Using the system-GMM estimator for linear dynamic panel data models and a sample of 125 countries analyzed from 1980 to 2006, we show that higher public deficit volatility is typically...
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We argue that positive comovements between land prices and business investment are a driving force behind the broad … joint dynamics of land prices and business investment. …
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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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using an empirical example of UK investment data. …
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The user cost elasticity is a parameter of considerable importance in economics, with implications for the effects of budget deficits, tax-based savings incentives, monetary policy, corporate taxes, and tariffs and quotas on capital goods. This paper analyzes the econometric issues that account...
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behavior. In particular, we ask whether and how strongly investment decisions of firms respond to stringency in environmental … estimate the differential impact of environmental stringency on four types of investment: gross investment in tangible goods …, in new buildings, in machinery, and in `productive' investment (investment in tangible goods minus investment in …
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The link between investment and finance usually enters the empirical literature in the form of financial constraints … credit market. In this context, the sensitivity of investment with respect to single internal or external finance indicators … resulting empirical investment function includes the probability of survival as an additional explanatory variable. This …
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?s Investment Tests (IT) during the years 1988-1998, we create a panel with information on investment, innovation activity and … financing conditions. Financial constraints affect the distribution of investment over time in a fundamental way. Following a … on Schworm?s (1980) model of optimal investment under financial constraints, we use it to test the empirical content of …
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relationship between investment activity and financial constraints is theoretically ambivalent due to simultaneity, the link … take longer to close capacity gaps. This indicates that financial constraints do indeed play a part in the investment …
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