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Do monetary policy credibility and disagreements in inflation and interest rate expectations affect business confidence? Evidence from an inflation targeting developing country [PDF]
Journal of Money and Business, 2023 Purpose – Business confidence is crucial to firm decisions, but it is deeply related to professional forecasters' expectations. Since Brazil is an important inflation targeting country, this paper investigates whether monetary policy credibility and ...
Gabriel Caldas Montes +1 more
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Does business confidence matter for investment? [PDF]
Empirical Economics, 2019 Business confidence is a well-known leading indicator of future output. Whether it has information about future investment is, however, unclear. We determine how informative business confidence is for investment growth independently of other variables using US business confidence survey data for 1955Q1–2016Q4.
Hashmat Khan
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The Confidence Paradox: Can Confidence Account for Business Cycles?
Journal of Economic Issues, 2018 Abstract:In matters of investment expectations, investors rely both on a forecast and on an estimate of the reliability of this forecast, which prompts the feeling of confidence. Although confidence “is one of the major determinants” of investment decisions in John Maynard Keynes’s theory, the fluctuations of which account for the “essential character ...
Michael Laine
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Effects of CSR and CR on Business Confidence in an Emerging Country [PDF]
Sustainability, 2020 Corporate social responsibility has been one of the main pillars of development for companies in developed countries and studies are being conducted for developed countries and the productive sector of the economy. Therefore, the main objective of this paper is to analyze the relationship between corporate social responsibility (CSR), corporate ...
Jesus Angel Del Brio +1 more
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Regional Business Confidence as Early Indicator of Regional Economic Growth [PDF]
Managing Global Transitions, 2021 Official sub-national GDP figures in South Africa are usually published with long delays or not at all, i.e. relevant, reliable, and real-time economic data on a provincial and local (municipal) level are often non-existent, causing a significant data ...
Ewert Kleynhans, Clive Coetzee
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Learning, confidence, and business cycles [PDF]
Journal of Monetary Economics, 2021 Abstract We argue that information accumulation provides a quantitatively successful propagation mechanism that challenges and empirically improves on the conventional New Keynesian models with many nominal and real rigidities. In particular, we build a tractable heterogeneous-firm business cycle model where firms face Knightian uncertainty about ...
Cosmin Ilut, Hikaru Saijo
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Expectations of a Post-Wwii Depression
Studia Historiae Oeconomicae, 2021 The forecast of a Post-WWII depression is contrasted against the vigorous growth that actually happened. Economists called for continued control over the economy to prevent the feared depression.
Clifford F. Thies
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Euro Area Business Confidence and COVID-19 [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2021 I study the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic on business confidence in 11 Euro area countries and its consequent impact on economic activity. To obtain causal effects, I instrument business confidence with domestic household confidence as well as average household confidence in neighboring countries.
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Policy uncertainty, the economy and business
South African Journal of Economic and Management Sciences, 2022 Elevated policy uncertainty acts as a tax on investment. In 1921, Frank Knight made a basic conceptual distinction between risk and uncertainty. In a market context, risks can be hedged through the use of different instruments, yet in the policy context,
Raymond Parsons, Waldo Krugell
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Are employees well evaluated in their CSR actions? The perception of managers in an emerging country
Revista Brasileira de Gestão De Negócios, 2020 Purpose – This paper tests the influence of employees’ involvement in CSR activities on managers’ perceptions regarding business confidence. Design/methodology/approach – A quantitative methodology was used to contrast the hypotheses presented ...
Edmundo Lizarzaburu Bolaños +1 more
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