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This paper presents a dynamic model that analyzes how firms' expectations with regards to technological change influence the demand for outsourcing. We show that outsourcing becomes more beneficial to the firm when technology is changing rapidly. As the pace of innovations in production...
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are widened by uncertainty. Our econometric model for six euro area countries suggests domestic demand and capacity … regression model and find that domestic demand developments and uncertainty are relevant for short-run export dynamics … empirical results are robust to the inclusion of a variable measuring European policy uncertainty. In some cases (Italy, Greece …
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are widened by uncertainty. Our econometric model for six euro area countries suggests domestic demand and capacity … regression model and find that domestic demand developments and uncertainty are relevant for short-run export dynamics …, our empirical results are robust to the inclusion of a variable measuring European policy uncertainty. In some cases …
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In this paper we offer an analysis of the effects of uncertainty about future tax policy on irreversible investment …. The main message of the paper is that investment is not much affected by the degreee of tax policy uncertainty. This is … that reducing tax policy uncertainty is probably no magic bullet to increase private investment spending …
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On March 18th 2009, FED has made a move it haven’t done since 1960 (the so-called Operation Trust conceived by the Kennedy administration): it steped into the market in order to buy long term securities for an amount of some 1.25 trillion dollars. FED also announced a program to restart...
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Although economists usually support the unrestricted entry of firms into an industry, entry may lower welfare if there are setup costs or if entrants have a cost disadvantage. We consider the welfare effects of entry within a standard Cornot model where some of an incumbent firm's costs are sunk.
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This paper tests for the sensitivity of R&D to financing constraints conditional on restrictions in external financing. Financing constraints of firms are identified by an exogenously calculated rating index. Restrictions in external financing are determined by (i) the specific time period...
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