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We draw a straight line connecting financial shocks, capital investment decisions by firms, and change in measured … TFP. We propose a model that shows the mechanism of an adverse shock to credit access causing firms to change the balance …
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We present evidence that the mix of transitory and permanent shocks to consumption is changing over time. We study implications of this finding for asset prices. The uncovered dynamics of consumption implies modestly upward sloping real bond and equity curves, upward sloping nominal yield curve,...
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We document the empirical fact that asset prices in the consumption-goods and investment-goods sector behave almost …
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We document the empirical fact that asset prices in the consumption-goods and investment-goods sector behave almost …
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Investors who arbitrage between long term government debt and corporate debt expand the Portfolio Balance Channel in that the effects of QE spill over to the overall cost of corporate borrowing. I find that overall the Federal Reserve's second round of Large-Scale Asset Purchases (LSAPII) boosts...
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This paper studies attention allocation behavior of rationally inattentive consumers who have CRRA preferences, face uninsured capital income risk, and suffer from an information-processing capacity constraint. For given attention devoted to capital income risk, we solve for the optimal...
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We study optimal investment in technologies characterized by the learning curve. There are two investment patterns … scale. If the curve is steep, firms invest earlier and on a smaller scale. We further demonstrate that learning investment … differs greatly from investment in technologies without learning effects. Learning investments generate substantial initial …
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