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In the literature investigating the impact of uncertainty on short-run and long-run investment, most authors have used … general ones and has the advantage of providing closed form solutions for both short-run investment rule and long-run rate of …
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The debate in Australia on the (constant-output) elasticity of labour demand with respect to wages has wrongly sidelined the role of capital stock as a determinant of employment (Webster, 2003). As far back as 1991, Pissarides had argued that the influence of capital stock on the performance of...
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The Indian debt overhang issue is one of the major reasons that fresh investments are currently not being made in the scale required to promote higher growth and boost employment. Among banks the public sector banks (PSBs) are burdened with the bulk of net non-performing loans (NNPAs). These...
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In this article we use a stochastic model with one representative firm to study business tax policy under default risk. We will show that, for a given tax rate, the government has an incentive to reduce (increase) financial instability and default costs if its objective function is welfare (tax...
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While empirical literature has documented a negative relation between default risk and stock returns, the theory suggests that default risk should be positively priced. We provide an explanation for this "default anomaly", by calculating monthly probabilities of default (PDs) for a large sample...
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This paper investigates a model of strategic interactions in financial networks, where the decision by one agent on whether or not to default impacts the incentives of other agents to escape default. Agents' payoffs are determined by the clearing mechanism introduced in the seminal contribution...
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This study introduces a real option model to investigate how fiscal policy affects a representative firm's investment … decision and to measure its welfare effects. On the one hand, the effects of financial instability on the optimal investment … investment project, the tax revenue generated and the welfare are influenced by financial instability. Then, a comparison of …
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individuals may file for bankruptcy or default on their mortgage. Uncertainty in the model is driven by house price shocks …, education specific productivity shocks, and catastrophic consumption events, while bankruptcy is governed by the basic … Bankruptcy policy. …
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's investment of endogenous size. Using a real option approach in continuous time, we show that profit sharing does not affect a … total investment. We also evaluate the reduction in the firm's value due to profit sharing, linking this reduction to the …
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investment decisions via both adjustment costs and marginal profitability of capital. We test these hypotheses by using a large … infrastructure ; Firm's value ; Corporate investment …
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