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Sources of Firm Life-Cycle Dynamics: Differentiating Size vs. Age Effects
Kueng, Lorenz; Yang, Mu-Jeung; Hong, Bryan - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
What determines firm growth over the life-cycle? Exploiting unique firm panel data on internal organization, balance sheets and innovation, representative of the entire Canadian economy, we study recent theories that examine life-cycle patterns for firm growth. These theories include...
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Asiaphoria Meets Regression to the Mean
Pritchett, Lant; Summers, Lawrence H. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
Consensus forecasts for the global economy over the medium and long term predict the world's economic gravity will substantially shift towards Asia and especially towards the Asian Giants, China and India. While such forecasts may pan out, there are substantial reasons that China and India may...
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Factor Utilization in Indian Manufacturing: A Look at the World Bank Investment Climate Surveys Data
Pakes, Ariel; Fernandes, Ana M. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008
We use the World Bank Investment Climate Surveys data to analyze the employment of both labor and capital in Indian manufacturing. We focus on disparities among states in manufacturing employment patterns, and provide reduced form evidence of their relationship to both (i) institutional...
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The Impact of the Asian Miracle on the Theory of Economic Growth
Fogel, Robert W. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009
This paper, divided into seven sections, considers the development of economic growth theory in light of the spectacular advances of the economies of China, India, and Southeast Asia. Section 1 reviews the debate over the sources of technological change and the measurement of total factor...
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Aggregate Fertility and Household Savings: A General Equilibrium Analysis using Micro Data
Meng, Xin; Banerjee, Abhijit; Porzio, Tommaso; Qian, Nancy - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
This study uses micro data and an overlapping generations (OLG) model to show that general equilibrium (GE) forces are critical for understanding the relationship between aggregate fertility and household savings. First, we document that parents perceive children as an important source of...
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Financial Frictions and the Persistence of History: A Quantitative Exploration
Buera, Francisco J.; Shin, Yongseok - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010
We quantify the role of financial frictions and the initial misallocation of resources in explaining development dynamics. Following a reform that triggers efficient reallocation of resources, our model economy with financial frictions converges slowly to the new steady state--it takes twice as...
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On the Measure of Distortions
Hopenhayn, Hugo A. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
aggregate productivity. TFP gaps are characterized as the integral of a strictly concave function with respect to an employment …, explaining the stronger effects on TFP found in the literature. In general, the effect of correlation between distortions and … for distortions to explain large TFP gaps. The effect of curvature on the impact and measurement of distortions is also …
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Convergence and Modernization Revisited
Barro, Robert J. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
In an 80-country panel since the 1960s, the convergence rate for per capita GDP is around 1.7% per year. This "beta convergence" is conditional on an array of explanatory variables that hold constant countries' long-run characteristics. The introduction of country fixed effects generates a much...
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The Contribution of Chinese FDI to Africa's Pre Crisis Growth Surge
Whalley, John; Weisbrod, Aaron - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011
In the 3 years before the 2008 Financial Crisis, GDP growth in sub Saharan Africa (averaged over individual economies) was around 6%, or 2 percentage points above mean growth rates for the preceding 10 years. This period also coincided with significant Chinese FDI flows into these countries,...
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The US Productivity Slowdown, the Baby Boom, and Management Quality
Feyrer, James - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009
This paper examines whether management changes caused by the entry of the baby boom into the workforce explain the US productivity slowdown in the 1970s and resurgence in the 1990s. Lucas (1978) suggests that the quality of managers plays a significant role in determining output. If there is...
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