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Drawing from confidential firm-level balance sheets in 11 European countries, the paper presents a novel sectoral database of comparable productivity indicators built by members of the Competitiveness Research Network (CompNet) using a newly developed research infrastructure. Beyond aggregate...
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time, focusing instead on a unweighted equity ratio target, we find evidence of deleveraging and lower loan growth for …
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incomes. Household deleveraging was primarily driven by the restrained mortgage borrowing by the young. In several countries … consumption growth driven by both rich and poor households: while the former were hit by large shocks to wealth, the latter also …
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This study addresses the issue of relations between the balances of individual sectors, applying standard statistical measures. A number of general observations were make. First, it is apparent that imbalances of the public, private and external sectors in most EU countries have tended to...
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growing. The paper investigates the impact of exchange rate stability on growth for a sample of 41 mostly small open economies … important transmission channels from exchange rate stability to more growth. It is argued that fixed exchange rates provide a … accelerating growth. Panel estimations reveal a robust negative relationship between exchange rate volatility and growth for …
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. Quantitative goals take three forms: exchange rates, money growth rates, and inflation targets. We analyze the effects on inflation …
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I analyze output growth, volatility, and skewness as the joint outcomes of financial openness. Using an industry panel … of 53 countries over 45 years, I find that financial openness increases simultaneously mean growth and the negative … skewness of the growth process. The increase in output skewness appears to come from a more negatively skewed distribution of …
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whether the historically well-documented relationship between growth, real exchange rates and trade protectionism has broken … strongly to changes in domestic growth and real exchange rates than those of G20 emerging market economies. Moreover, G20 …
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In this paper we assess to what extent in the existence of a financial crisis, government spending can contribute to mitigate economic downturns in the short run and whether such impact differs in crisis and non crisis times. We use panel analysis for a set of OECD and non-OECD countries for the...
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public expenditure and its financing via revenue and deficits, and economic growth. We review the various channels through … which public finances affect growth and its underlying determinants (institutional framework, employment, savings and … surveys the empirical findings on the impact of fiscal variables on sustained economic growth. JEL Classification: H50, O40 …
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