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In this paper, I analyze the effect of Employment Protection Legislation (EPL) on investments in physical capital and … affects the employment margin and conduct an implicit test for the possibility of a negative impact of EPL on investments due … these outcomes - also not when analyzing the effect of EPL by industry. The results of EPL on investments and labor …
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In this paper, we study the interdependent relationship between three types of investments: foreign direct investments …, central government investments, and all other investments, and their role in the gross domestic product dynamics in the … that, in the long run, there is only one relationship in which all other investments are dependent variables. In it, the …
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a proprietary dataset that has the investments of banks at the security level for 2005-2012 in conjunction with the … their investments in securities, especially in those that had a larger price drop, with the strongest impact in low …
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is easy to intuit. On the medium and long term investments in education generate a strong increase in a country’s level …
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In this study, we investigate whether neoclassical economic theory, capital market frictions or preference-based theory can explain investment behaviour in the Dutch beam trawler fishery in the North Sea. By presenting a number of estimations, we show that vessels conducting pulse fishing invest...
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and one important determinant of growth is investments in physical capital. This in turn is correlated with FDI, which is …
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Events which have an adverse or positive effect on some firms can disseminate through the economy to firms which are not directly affected. By exploiting the first large sovereign bond purchase programme of the ECB, this paper investigates whether more lending to some firms spill over to firms...
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I extend the Glick and Rogoff (1995) aggregate time-series, empirical, intertemporal model of country-investment (and the current account) to a sectoral-level, and estimate it for New Zealand. I fit the model to panel data of eleven industries from 1988-2009. The sectoral-level investment growth...
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model of health investments under competing mortality risks, in which people allocate expenses to equalize lifetime across … all causes of death. We predict that private health investments to fight malaria as well as other diseases should increase …
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economic policy to foster investments are limited in the short run for what reason long term and growth-oriented economic …
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