A Comment on Nishimura, Nakajima, and Kiyota's "Does the natural selection mechanism still work in severe recessions? Examination of the Japanese economy in the 1990s"
Tae Okada, Charles Yuji Horioka
Nishimura et al. (2005) analyze the entry/exit behavior of Japanese firms during the 1990s and find that relatively efficient firms exited while relatively inefficient firms survived during the banking-crisis period of 1996-97. They conclude that the natural selection mechanism (NSM) apparently malfunctions during severe recessions, but we offer a more plausible interpretation: NSM continued to function effectively even during this period, but aberrant banking practices caused a shift in the type of natural selection from directional to disruptive selection, with the most efficient as well as the least efficient firms being favored and firms of intermediate efficiency being selected against
Year of publication: |
August 2007
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Authors: | Okada, Tae |
Other Persons: | Horioka, Charles Yuji (contributor) |
Institutions: | National Bureau of Economic Research (contributor) |
Publisher: |
Cambridge, Mass : National Bureau of Economic Research |
Subject: | Konjunktur | Business cycle | Japan | Produktivität | Productivity | Marktaustritt | Market exit | Markteintritt | Market entry |
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freely available
Extent: | 1 Online-Ressource |
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Series: | NBER working paper series ; no. w13298 |
Type of publication: | Book / Working Paper |
Language: | English |
Notes: | Mode of access: World Wide Web System requirements: Adobe [Acrobat] Reader required for PDF files Hardcopy version available to institutional subscribers. |
Other identifiers: | 10.3386/w13298 [DOI] |
Source: | ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW |
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