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This paper reviews recent literature on China's macroeconomic development, emphasizing the critical role of the gradualist approach over the past four decades. Beyond China's structural transformation, we explore various aspects such as high saving rates, the housing boom, an expanding current...
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affecting productivity. By contrast, sentiment shocks in non-G7 countries predict prolonged economic growth and a corresponding … increase in productivity. The results suggest that sentiment can indeed create economic booms, but only in less advanced …
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consequences of changing firm concentration: productivity, distortions, selection into exporting, scale economies, and … firms is attributable to higher productivity growth rather than differential distortions. Exceptional performance of the top …
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production. Furthermore, cross-border data flows can reverse the cyclicity of working data usage after productivity shocks …
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Compared to a half-century ago, inequality in the United states has risen and measured productivity growth has fallen …-homothetic preferences and productivity improvements directed toward goods with larger market size. The model admits balanced growth despite … measured growth of output and productivity. Nevertheless, welfare improves at the same rate along both BGPs. At the root of the …
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This paper studies China's four-fold increase in per capita GDP relative to the U.S. between 1995 and 2019. First, we argue that China's growth pattern is very similar to that of several other East Asia economies that initially grew very quickly. Second, we show that a minimalist...
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Advanced economies borrowed substantially during the Covid recession to fund their fiscal policy. The Covid recession differed from the Great Recession in that sovereign debt markets remained calm and spreads barely responded. We study the experience of Greece, the most extreme manifestation of...
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taxation be structured to improve productivity, incentivize innovation, and ultimately increase welfare? We study these … their productivity and are subject to collateral constraints. The stationary equilibrium features heterogeneous returns and … misallocation of capital. We show that increasing the wealth tax increases aggregate productivity. The gains result from the "use …
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Most explanations of Korea's and Taiwan's economic growth since the early 1960s place heavy emphasis on export orientation. However, it is difficult to see how export orientation could have played a significant causal role in these countries' growth. The measured increase in the relative...
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The European Central Bank is unique in setting monetary policy for several sovereign states with heterogeneous debt levels and different maturity structures. The monetary-fiscal nexus is central to the functioning of the euro area. We focus on one particular aspect of that nexus, the effect the...
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