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We derive aggregate growth-accounting implications for a two-sector economy with heterogeneous capital subsidies and …
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should rise in ICT-using sectors (reflecting either unobserved accumulation of intangible organizational capital, spillovers …. Furthermore, industry TFP accelerations in the 2000s are positively correlated with (appropriately weighted) industry ICT capital …
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This paper exploits business cycle asymmetry observed in data, namely, a systematic shift in the dynamic relationship between the output and the interest rate spread across expansionary and contractionary periods in forecasting monthly industrial production. A bivariate model of monthly...
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This paper investigates how concentrated ownership of capital influences the pricing of risky assets in a production …-agent economy because the capital owners' consumption is more strongly linked to volatile dividends from equity. A temporary shock … to the technology for producing new capital (an "investment shock") causes dividend growth to be much more volatile than …
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markets indicates that domestic agents may not be able to borrow in international capital markets to fully insure themselves …
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Are countries with unregulated capital flows more vulnerable to currency crises? Efforts to answer this question … properly must control for "self selection" bias since countries with liberalized capital accounts may also have more sound … sample selection bias, countries with liberalized capital accounts experience a lower likelihood of currency crises. That is …
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The 1998 Annual Capital Expenditure Survey (ACES) provides information on disaggregate investment across a wide range …
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We look at disaggregated imports of various types of equipment to make inferences on cross-country differences in the composition of equipment investment. We make three contributions. First, we document large differences in investment composition. Second, we explain these differences as being...
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This paper explores the relationship between capital composition and productivity using a unique and remarkably … capital types, including computers, communications equipment, and software, are associated with current and subsequent years … exist for a number of key capital types. I also provide evidence of complementaries and substitutabilities among capital …
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The standard argument for abstracting from capital accumulation in sticky-price macro models is based on their short …-run focus: over this horizon, capital does not move much. This argument is more problematic in the context of real exchange rate … (RER) dynamics, which are very persistent. In this paper we study RER dynamics in sticky-price models with capital …
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