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Here are some of Steve Fazzari's papers in various formats.  If you are interested in something that you cannot find here, send e-mail.

Academic Working Papers

Household Debt in the Consumer Age:  Source of Growth—Risk of Collapse with Barry Z. Cynamon, August, 2008 (forthcoming, Capitalism and Society, 2008)

Financing Innovation and Growth: Cash Flow, External Equity and the 1990s R&D Boom with James R. Brown and Bruce C. Petersen, April, 2008 (forthcoming, Journal of Finance, 2009)

Cash Flow, Investment, and Keynes-Minsky Cycles with Piero Ferri and Edward Greenberg  (now published in, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2008)

That Elusive Elasticity:  A Long-Panel Approach To Estimating The Capital-Labor Substitution Elasticity (with Robert S. Chirinko, Steven M. Fazzari, and Andrew P. Meyer), January, 2004
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Published Academic Papers

Asymmetric Information, Financing Constraints, and Investment (Review of Economics and Statistics, 1987, JSTOR)

Investment, Financing Decisions, and Tax Policy (American Economic Review, 1988, JSTOR)

Financing Constraints and Corporate Investment (Brookings Papers, 1988, JSTOR)

Working Capital and Fixed Investment: New Evidence on Financing Constraints (Rand Journal of Economics, 1993)

Inventory Investment, Internal-Finance Fluctuations, and the Business Cycle (Brookings Papers, 1994, JSTOR)

Economic Fluctuations, Market Power, and Returns to Scale: Evidence from Firm-Level Data (Journal of Applied Econometrics, 1994, JSTOR)
 
 
 

Policy Papers

Levy Institute Policy Note on Capital Income Taxation (1999, html)

Levy Institute Paper on Capital Gains Taxes (1996, MS Word document)

A Penny Saved May Not Be a Penny Earned:  Thinking Hard About Saving and the Creation of Wealth (pdf)