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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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China's investment rate is one of the highest in the world, which naturally leads one to suspect that the return to … capital in China must be quite low. Using the data from China's national accounts, we estimate the rate of return to capital … in China. We find that the aggregate rate of return to capital averaged 25% during 1978-1993, fell during 1993-1998, and …
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In this paper, we analyze the determinants of corporate saving in the form of changes in the stock of cash for 11 Asian economies using firm-level data from the Oriana Database for the 2002-2011 period. We find some evidence that cash flow has a positive impact on the change in the stock of...
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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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We argue that the demographic changes caused by the one child policy (OCP) may not harm China's long-term growth. This … attributes to the higher human capital induced by the intergenerational transfer arrangement under China's poor … of schooling rather than 8.1). Our model sheds new light on the prospects of China's long-term growth by emphasizing the …
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. This evidence suggests that intangible capital formation may play an important role in China's reform-driven transformation … no general assessment of its role in China's rapid economic growth. This paper seeks to fill this gap by estimating how … China's recent growth is then assessed using a growth accounting framework, and the results compared to similar findings for …
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During Egypt's Arab Spring, unprecedented popular mobilization and protests brought down Hosni Mubarak's government and ushered in an era of competition between three groups: elites associated with Mubarak's National Democratic Party (NDP), the military, and the Islamist Muslim Brotherhood....
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establishments to quantify the potential extent of misallocation in China and India compared to the U.S. Compared to the U.S., we … measure sizable gaps in marginal products of labor and capital across plants within narrowly-defined industries in China and ….S., we calculate manufacturing TFP gains of 30-50% in China and 40-60% in India. …
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We analyze employment and capital adjustments using plant data from the Colombian Annual Manufacturing Survey. We estimate adjustment functions for capital and labor as a non-linear function of the gaps between desired and actual factor levels, allowing for interdependence in adjustments of the...
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Whether or not the marginal product of capital (MPK) differs across countries is a question that keeps coming up in discussions of comparative economic development and patterns of capital flows. Attempts to provide an empirical answer to this question have so far been mostly indirect and based...
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