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And Schumpeter Said, "This is How Thou Shalt Grow"; Further Quest for Economic Growth in Poor Countries

Beaugrand, Philippe - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2004

entrepreneurs innovate—in the Schumpeterian sense—in order to bring about structural changes in the economy. The conclusion …

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Growth and Capital Flows with Risky Entrepreneurship

Sandri, Damiano - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2010

This paper shows that the behavior of entrepreneurs facing incomplete financial markets and risky investment can … uninsurable risk of losing invested capital forces entrepreneurs to rely on self-financing, so that when business opportunities … open up entrepreneurs increase saving to finance the investment that produces growth. The key insight is that saving has to …

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Japan; Financial Sector Assessment Programâ€”Technical Note on Credit Intermediation

International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2012

This paper is an analysis of Japanâ€™s credit channel. The economic condition has no hindrance, but credit demand showed an inert performance. The stateâ€™s policies have helped the flow of finance and prevent bankruptcy, but several other aspects act as an impediment to credit...

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What Role Can Financial Policies Play in Revitalizing SMEs in Japan?

Lam, Raphael W.; Shin, Jongsoon - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2012

The paper discusses the role the financial sector can play in supporting growth in Japan. While overall credit conditions have been accommodative, credit growth has remained weak, especially for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Firm-level SME data and sectoral corporate balance sheets...

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Explaining Economic Growth with Imperfect Credit Markets

Carranza, Luis - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2000

the competition among entrepreneurs (“intensive growth”). As a result, the growth rate could be increasing in the middle …

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Intangible Capital, Relative Asset Shortages and Bubbles

Giglio, Stefano; Severo, Tiago - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2011

We analyze an overlapping generations economy with financial frictions and accumulation of both physical and intangible capital. The key difference between them is that intangible capital cannot be used as collateral for borrowing. As intangibles become more important in production, financial...

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Show Me the Money; Access to Finance for Small Borrowers in Canada

Klyuev, Vladimir - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2008

This paper examines access to business finance by Canadian small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and to housing finance by Canadian households (particularly non-prime borrowers) against the background of a fairly concentrated and protected banking industry. It finds access broadly adequate...

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Sudden Stops, Output Drops, and Credit Collapses

Dagher, Jihad - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2010

This paper proposes a tractable Sudden Stop model to explain the main patterns in firm level data in a sample of Southeast Asian firms during the Asian crisis. The model, which features trend shocks and financial frictions, is able to generate the main patterns observed in the sample during and...

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High Growth and Low Consumption in East Asia; How to Improve Welfare While Avoiding Financial Failures

Rochon, Céline; Feltenstein, Andrew; Shamloo, Maral - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2007

This paper analyzes certain policies that are typical of a number of rapidly growing East Asian countries in which a fixed exchange rate, combined with a surplus labor market, has made domestic assets relatively inexpensive, generating high rates of FDI as well as domestic capital formation....

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Determinants of, and the Relation Between, Foreign Direct Investment and Growth; A Summary of the Recent Literature

Lim, Ewe-Ghee - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2001

This paper summarizes recent arguments/findings on two aspects of foreign direct investment (FDI): its correlation with economic growth and its determinants. The first part focuses on recent literature regarding positive spillovers from FDI while the second deals with the determinants of FDI....

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