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We examine interactions between investment and financing decisions in a dynamic model where the firm can alter the mix of debt and equity financing and exercise a randomly arriving and potentially short lived growth option. The firm will typically finance the exercise of the growth option with...
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As elsewhere in the world, in the Western Balkans the COVID-19 pandemic has plunged countries into deep recession. Because of the recession, labor market conditions have taken a turn for the worse and welfare improvements have been interrupted, although government response measures cushioned the...
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Institutions like the IMF, the ECB and many finance ministries and private banks in the world's richest countries are sending out unequivocal calls for strict control of prices to be addressed urgently, given their intrinsic relationship with how the budget deficit and government debt evolve....
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Many heterodox strands of thought share both a concern with the study of different phases or growth regimes in the history of capitalism and the use of formal short-run models as an analytical tool. This text suggests that: (1) this strategy is potentially misleading; (2) that the stock-flow...
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In a recent article, Vincent Geloso (2015) argues that the study of social networks can illuminate Deirdre McCloskey's view that modern economic growth was fostered by according entrepreneurial actions a sense of dignity. I extend Geloso's framework to suggest that an ‘analytical egalitarian'...
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Hansen's theory of secular stagnation has been resurrected in mainstream discourse today through economists such as … Lawrence Summers and Paul Krugman. The modern theory of stagnation believes that excess savings – brought about due to slowing … interest rate to go below zero. This theory is flawed in calling itself “Keynesian” since its focus on the interest rate as …
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The success of an economic system depends on its having a strong basis of legitimacy in society. For much of the twentieth century, the legitimacy of "American capitalism" was based on the public belief that it would most rapidly and successfully advance the economic progress of the American...
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A longstanding criticism to Keynesian and Kaleckian growth theories is the question: why would firms operating with underutilized capacity accumulate capital stock? Our answer hinges on firms’ utilization choices depending on their beliefs about the level of demand, as captured by aggregate...
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