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Trade Liberalization, Input Intermediaries and Firm Productivity : Evidence from China
Defever, Fabrice - 2019
We investigate theoretically and empirically the role of wholesalers in mediating the productivity effects of trade … liberalization. Intermediaries provide indirect access to foreign produced inputs. The productivity effects of input tariff cuts on … firms experience productivity gains from reducing input tariffs if trade intermediation of foreign inputs within their …
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Structural Change in Production Networks and Economic Growth
Gaggl, Paul; Gorry, Aspen; vom Lehn, Christian - 2023
stemming from reallocation induced by structural change. At the same time, productivity growth within the input-output network …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014348090
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The Impact of Product and Labour Market Reform on Growth : Evidence for OECD Countries Based on Local Projections
de Haan, Jakob - 2020
This paper examines the impact of labour and product market reforms on economic growth in 25 OECD countries between 1985 and 2013, and tests whether this impact is conditioned by the fiscal policy stance, i.e. whether there are fiscal expansions or adjustments. Our local projection results...
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Structural Change and Productivity Growth in Europe - Past, Present and Future
Duernecker, Georg; Sanchez-Martinez, Miguel - 2021
This paper studies the effect of structural change on the historical path of aggregate labor productivity growth for a … that structural change may have on future productivity growth. We document that the observed reallocation of economic … activity since the 1970s towards the service sector has exerted a strongly negative effect on aggregate productivity growth in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013211112
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Heavyweights - The Impact of Large Businesses on Productivity Growth
Falck, Oliver - 2021
business size in an industry fosters growth in terms of total factor productivity (TFP). The results suggest that the overall …
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What Happened to U.S. Business Dynamism?
Akcigit, Ufuk - 2019
In the past several decades, the U.S. economy has witnessed a number of striking trends that indicate a rising market concentration and a slowdown in business dynamism. In this paper, we make an attempt to understand potential common forces behind these empirical regularities through the lens of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012861420
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The Impact of the Spatial Population Distribution on Economic Growth : Evidence from the United States
Bürgi, Constantin; Gorgulu, Nisan - 2022
We look at a part of the spatial angle of economic growth. We introduce a new measure Spatial Population Concentration (SPC) that captures the weighted average population surrounding every person within a geographic area. The weights are a function of the distance between the person in question...
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Economic Growth and Climate Change: Many Trajectories, Many Destinations
Steger, Thomas; Trimborn, Timo - 2024
To gain insights into the mechanisms that shape the interaction between economic growth and climate change, we analyze the simplified DICE through the lens of growth theory. We analytically show that this model exhibits a continuum of saddle-point stable steady states, a property that carries...
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Accounting for the Duality of the Italian Economy
Fernández-Villaverde, Jesús; Laudati, Dario; Ohanian, … - 2023
total factor productivity, followed by fiscal redistribution. These two factors, together, account for more than 70 percent …
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International capital market integration, educational choice and economic growth
Egger, Hartmut; Egger, Peter; Falkinger, Josef; … - 2005
things equal. Increased participation in higher education enhances productivity progress and is accompanied by rising wage …
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