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’ because the tax liability is offset by a reduction in the post-tax risk of the investment. The Paper argues that this claim is … investment incentives in the presence of risk. Instead it proposes an alternative measure, based on the market value of the pre …
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savings, investment, and labour supply in neoclassical models, and to the rate of unemployment in job search models. These …
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Euro Area. We find that an increase in capital investment risk shock, results in a considerably deeper recession when …
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This Paper takes a broader look at how vertical linkages can trigger the spatial agglomeration of economic activity in a ‘new economic geography’ (NEG) set-up. First, it formally establishes the key positive features of a wide class of vertical-linkage models without resorting to numerical...
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We review a recent body of theoretical work that aims to put numbers on the consequences of globalization. A unifying theme of our survey is methodological. We rely on gravity models and demonstrate how they can be used for counterfactual analysis. We highlight how various economic...
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In this paper, we show that strategic complementarities--such as firm-specific factors or quasi-kinked demand--have crucial implications for the design of monetary policy and for the welfare costs of output and inflation variability. Recent research has mainly used log-linear approximations to...
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relative to the present is reduced. Hence, due to a rise in terror activity, investment goes down, and in the long run income … and welfare. Next, we show that this theory of terror and the economy helps to understand changes in trend and business …
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and investment, so it may take some time before an unemployed worker finds a job. Wages are determined by bargaining. A … subsidize entrepreneurial investment (there is a wage bargaining distortion and a search externality), simulations show that the …
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fertility, and lower investment in physical and human capital. Furthermore, the feedback effect from economic prosperity to …
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and investment. When the share of output that accrues to the owners of natural resources rises, the demand for capital … allocation of capital may, however, enhance the quantity as well as the quality of new investment and sustain growth. Empirical … thereby inhibiting economic growth. The results also suggest that abundant natural resources may hurt saving and investment …
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