This article investigates how changing production processes and increasing market power at the firm level relate to a fall in Germany’s manufacturing sector labour share. Coinciding with the fall of the labour share, I document a rise in firms’ product and labour market power. Notably,...

This working paper was written by Kang Shi (The Chinese University of Hong Kong) and Juanyi Xu (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, and Simon Fraser University).This paper develops a small open economy model with sticky prices to show why a flexible exchange rate policy is not...

We construct exogenous demand shocks using quarterly mutual fund flow data to estimate CUSIP and portfolio elasticities for U.S. corporate bonds. Our approach relaxes the homogeneous cross-elasticity assumption implicitly embedded in many existing methods. At the CUSIP level, the elasticity is...

I estimate CES aggregate production functions for the US, the UK, Japan, Germany, and Spain using data from the EU KLEMS database. I distinguish between three types of capital: information and communication technologies (ICT), intellectual property (IP) capital, and traditional capital. I assume...

Simultaneity represents a fundamental problem when estimating the elasticity of substitution between capital and labour. To overcome this problem, a wide variety of external instruments has been applied in the literature. However, the use of instruments may lead to wrong inference if they are...