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This study is undertaken to determine the relative impacts of the uncertainty of macroeconomic variables on investment … revealed the following: (1) existence of long run relationship between some of the macroeconomic variables and investment, (2 … uncertainty of most of the macroeconomic variables impact negatively on investment in Nigeria. The study recommends the use of …
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We study the extent to which countries undergo structural change during and after episodes of sustained investment … 130 episodes over the period 1962-2014. High investment may often be a necessary but not sufficient condition for …
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This paper analyzes the relationship between functional income distribution aggregate demand and economic growth in five Central American countries; Costa Rica, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Panama for the period 1970-2016. It estimates the effects of a change in the wage share on...
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We analyze the effects of intangible investment on international output synchronization. Using a dynamic stochastic …
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Using firm-level data for 18 major global economies, we find that the exchange rate affects corpo-rate investment … through a financial channel: exchange rate depreciation dampens corporate invest-ment through firm leverage and FX debt. These … findings are consistent with the predictions of a stylised model of credit risk in which exchange rates can affect investment …
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Existing empirical studies have focused on determinants of investment. We focus instead on episodes of accelerated … analysis to explore their characteristics. Turning points in investment tend to be preceded by undervalued real exchange rates … capital index. Investment surges appear to be associated with accelerated structural change in the economy. …
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This paper investigates the relative price and relative wage effects of a higher productivity in the traded sector compared with the non traded sector in a two-sector open economy model with imperfect substitutability in hours worked across sectors. The Balassa- Samuelson [1964] model predicts...
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This paper aims to empirically examine the determinants that influence the investment decisions of firms in East Asia … investment decisions in all the sample countries in the region. In addition, the study found that export expansion led to … increasing internal funding capability, which had a positive influence on the firm¡¯s investment decision. …
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unanticipated and anticipated tax reforms. First, an unanticipated tax reform produces an expansion of GDP, labor, and investment …
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) non-separability in preferences between consumption and labor, and ii) traded investment. …
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