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The national income and product accounts double-count investment, which enters once when it occurs and again in present … gross investment. In the steady state, revised product and income correspond to consumption. Outside of the steady state …, the measure deviates from consumption because full expensing relates to the long-run flow of gross investment, not the …
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We investigate the impact of climate change on the macroeconomic performance of a small open economy. The setup is a new Keynesian dynamic stochastic general equilibrium model of a small open economy without monetary policy independence in which a climate module that interacts with the economy...
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We study optimal savings in continuous time with exogenous transitions between employment and unemployment as the only source of uncertainty in a small open economy. We prove the existence of an optimal consumption path. We exploit that the dynamics of consumption and wealth between jumps can be...
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We study a small open economy displaying Pareto-distributed wealth resulting from random death. The government runs a distribution scheme on inheritance. We present the mathematical background that allows to study the dynamics of means. We end up with ordinary differential equations for the mean...
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Previous literature concludes that replacing wage taxation by taxes on a fixed factor or its rents benefits future generations. However, the effects of such steady-state gains on the transition generations have been left open. In this paper, we show that taxation of rents may also increase...
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In a continuous-time framework we study the technology and investment choice problem of a continuous co … flexible technology allowing for such option. Investment is irreversible and flexibility is costly. The problem is solved … determining in the light of future prospects the optimal revision and then playing backward fixing the investment timing rule. …
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shock. Our estimated model uncovers a central role for investment in the transmission mechanism of monetary policy, as high … MPCs amplify the investment response in the data. This force also generates a procyclical response of consumption to … investment shocks, leading our model to infer a central role for these shocks as a source of business cycles …
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For a long time, China's impressive growth performance has been driven by investment and high productivity gains. Based … sustainability of China's investment- and export-driven growth model. It is shown that since the turn of the millennium buoyant …
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compatibility and can engage in bundling. We consider the impact of merger on prices, investment and consumer surplus. We also …
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similar investment subsidies were implemented in the same country, two years apart: once during a period of economic stability … offer an important policy opportunity to encourage investment …
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