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Theoretical models point at various channels of the impact of inflation on corporate investment. This article attempts … corporate investment and inflation on the sample of 21 OECD countries in the years 1960-2005. The obtained negative relationship … this relationship: the marginal effect on corporate investment is higher at inflation rates between 3 and 5.5 per cent …
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to stimulate investment in times of low or even zero interest rates and uncertainty. …The interest rate is generally considered as an important driver of macroeconomic investment characterised by a … banks) whether uncertainty over future interest rates at the zero lower bound hampers monetary policy transmission. As an …
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firms’ investment in capital depends on the structure and coordination of bargaining, the preference of unions between wages …
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Although the federal government has been taking steps to strengthen investment in Germany, it remains considerably low …. This includes private investment, on which thepresent study focuses. German companies are barely investing more than they … did before the crisis, but this is not the case elsewhere: in the US, for example, the level of investment is nearly 14 …
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Although the federal government has been taking steps to strengthen investment in Germany, it remains considerably low …. This includes private investment, on which the present study focuses. German companies are barely investing more than they … did before the crisis, but this is not the case elsewhere: in the US, for example, the level of investment is nearly 14 …
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Ten years after the 2008 financial crisis, in the euro area investment is still below the pre-crisis level. Public and … private investment growth is so weak that capital per worker (capital intensity) has virtually remained constant. An increase … in public investment activity could ultimately stimulate private investment. Estimates for the euro area show that an …
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The low interest rate environment is less due to monetary policy and more due to global trends in investment and … savings as well as a crisis-induced reduction in investment. Finishing the balance sheet recession can lead to a higher … interest rate level in the medium-run through higher investment. A higher natural real interest rate would enable central banks …
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Empirical evidence suggests that capital structure varies across firms facing different levels of information asymmetry, however, this evidence contradict the prediction of pecking order hypothesis. Although debt capacity constraints offer some explanation for this discrepancy, it fails to...
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firms' investment in capital depends on the structure and coordination of bargaining, the preference of unions between wages …
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Purpose: The present study aims to investigate the primary tools and digitalisation applications used by agro-food firms in Greece. These factors encourage or discourage digitalisation and identify which policies are in place to ensure an effective digitalisation in the food sector....
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