labor income risk and stock-market participation costs. In contrast to the initial motivation, we find that the model is not …

income risk, in the form of both uninsurable shocks and a common aggregate component, small differences in the correlation …

frequencies, the Consumption-CAPM is still rejected by the data and requires a very high level of Relative Risk Aversion(RRA) in … order to rationalize the stock market risk premium. This result holds for a variety of data sources and samples –including …-sectional dis-persion of consumption risk relative to the cross-sectional variation of average returns …

This article estimates the effect of visa restrictions on bilateral trade flows and foreign direct investment (FDI … effects, it is at least questionable whether many of the existing visa restrictions would pass a cost-benefit test. …

employment, investment and productivity, and a moderate loss in GDP. This temporary impact of a second moment shock is different …

This paper analyses a dynamic game of investment in R&D or advertising, where current investments change future market … conditions. It investigates whether underinvestment can be supported in equilibrium by the threat of escalation in investment … investment in equilibrium. Furthermore, potential entry is introduced into the model so as to address the issues of market …

capital to labour with no efficiency effects, but is probably more likely to lead to lower investment rates and economic … senescence. Therefore the impact of unions on productivity, financial performance and investment is extremely important. This … unionisation reduces investment by around one fifth compared with the investment rate in a non-union workplace. In both Canada and …

even after controlling for investment, size, book-to-market and momentum as well as other known predictors of stock returns … forward looking in nature and thus informative about the firms’ expectations about future cash-flows and risk …-adjusted discount rates. The model implies that the investment rate and the hiring rate predicts stock returns because these variables …

, major weaknesses with respect to long-run investment in human capital, infrastructure and innovation remain. These are … hampered by problems of short-termism and policy risk. We propose a series of radical reforms to address these problems: such …