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Revisiting the finance and growth nexus : a deeper look at sectors and instruments
Unger, Robert - 2019
This paper investigates empirically whether the relation between finance and growth depends on a specific type of financing. I construct a novel panel data set for 34 high income countries over the time period from 1995 to 2014 based on financial accounts data. It allows distinguishing between...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011962798
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Natural resources, demand for external finance and financial development
Hattendorff, Christian - 2014
The paper contributes to the ongoing debate on the natural resource curse, which postulates a negative link between natural resource abundance and economic growth. It shows empirically that resource-rich countries appear to have a less developed financial system and investigates a potential...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010433905
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The effects of regional banks on economic resilience during the COVID-19 pandemic and the global financial crisis a cross-country comparison of the European countries
Flögel, Franz; Hejnová, Tereza - 2021
An economy's ability to resist adverse shocks, such as an economic recession or natural disaster, is associated with its financial system structure due to different countercyclical funding capabilities. This paper uses a novel database of bank headquarter locations in a cross-country comparison...
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The financial market effects of the ECB's asset purchase programs
Lewis, Vivien; Roth, Markus - 2017
The European Central Bank's asset purchase programs, while intended to stabilize the economy, may have unintended side effects on financial stability. This paper aims at gauging the effects on financial markets, the banking sector, and lending to non-financial firms. Using a structural vector...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011712553
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Ancestry, Diversity & Finance : Evidence from Transition Economies
Dombi, Akos; Grigoriadis, Theocharis - 2017
In this paper, we analyze the growth effects of historical and biological ancestry, diversity and financial development in transition economies. We show that the common indicators of ethnolinguistic fractionalization, state history and genetic distance yield significant results and to some...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011596107
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The role of financial development in private sector growth in Saudi Arabia
Hasanov, Fakhri J.; Darandary, Abdulelah; Alyamani, Ryan - 2023
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014445974
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The Brexit vote, productivity growth and macroeconomic adjustments in the United Kingdom
Broadbent, Ben; Di Pace, Federico; Drechsel, Thomas; … - 2019
conceptualised as news about a future slowdown in productivity growth in the tradable sector. Simulations show that the responses of …' for tradable producers before the slowdown in tradable sector productivity associated with Brexit occurs. Resources are … the productivity decline in the tradable sector materialises. The negative news about tradable sector productivity also …
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A global decline in research productivity? : evidence from China and Germany
Boeing, Philipp; Hünermund, Paul - 2020
In a recent paper, Bloom et al. (2020) find evidence for a substantial decline in research productivity in the U …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012239797
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Pandemic effects : do innovation activities of firms suffer from long-Covid?
Trunschke, Markus; Peters, Bettina; Czarnitzki, Dirk; … - 2023 - This version: 2.6.2023
The COVID-19 pandemic has affected firms in many economies. Exploiting treatment heterogeneity, we use a difference-in-differences design to causally identify the short-run impact of COVID-19 on innovation spending in 2020 and expected innovation spending in subsequent years. Based on a...
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Trapped factors and China's impact on global growth
Bloom, Nicholas; Romer, Paul Michael; Terry, Stephen; … - 2014
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