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Who gains from better access to credit? : credit reform and reallocation of resources

Arnold, Jens Matthias; Flach, Lisandra - 2017

Brazil's 2005 bankruptcy law reform strengthened creditor protection, resulting in a substantial acceleration of credit expansion and business investment growth. In this paper, we go beyond average effects and examine to what extent the pro-creditor reform affected the allocation of resources...

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Building daily economic sentiment indicators

Rey del Castillo, Pilar - 2022

The availability of copious amounts of data produced by the increasing datification of our society is nowadays deemed an opportunity to produce timely and convenient statistical information. This paper shows the building of economic sentiment indexes from the texts of the most read economic...

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Political connections, state ownership and productivity in China

Harris, Richard I. D.; Hashimzade, Nigar; Ding, Sai - 2016

, and total factor productivity (TFP) using firm-level data for China between 1998 and 2007. We find, consistent with the … model, that the firms with the highest levels of TFP had low levels of political affiliation and/or state ownership. …

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Decentralized environmental regulations and plant-level productivity

Ghosal, Vivek; Stephan, Andreas; Weiss, Jan F. - 2018

Using a unique plant-level dataset we examine total factor productivity (TFP) growth and its components, related to … literature on the Porter Hypothesis, which posits a positive relationship between environmental regulation and "green" TFP growth …

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The impact of inequality on the informal economy in Latin America and the Caribbean with a MIMIC model

Takanohashi, Marcos; Ribeiro, Marcel; Schneider, Friedrich - 2023

Vast literature is available covering main Informal Economy (IE) causes and consequences for Latin America and Caribbean (LAC), but its size estimation has been mainly limited to worldwide models applied to the region. This paper proposes a MIMIC Base Model using a data set composed by 41...

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Is the electricity sector a weak link in development?

Colmer, Jonathan; Lagakos, David; Shu, Martin - 2023

electricity-sector TFP across countries. The model predicts modest long-run GDP gains from improving electricity-sector TFP …

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Business dynamics and productivity growth in the Netherlands

Freeman, Daan; Bettendorf, Leon; Heuvelen, Gerrit Hugo van - 2024

. This dataset facilitates an evaluation of start-ups’ and exiting firms’ contributions to Total Factor Productivity (TFP … overall TFP growth. In contrast, TFP growth in manufacturing is primarily driven by incumbent firms. Entry and exit dynamics … in this context exert minimal or even negative influence on TFP growth. Although entrants in manufacturing initially …

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Energy efficiency in general equilibrium with input-output linkages

Blackburn, Christopher J.; Moreno Cruz, Juan - 2019

Industrial activity periodically experiences breakthrough innovations in energy efficiency, but the estimated impacts of these innovations on aggregate energy use are highly varied. We develop a general equilibrium model to investigate whether this variation is determined by the structure of the...

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Unraveling firms : demand, productivity and markups heterogeneity

Forlani, Emanuele; Martin, Ralf; Mion, Giordano; Muls, … - 2016 - First draft: 16th June 2015. This draft: January 15, 2016

We develop a new econometric framework that simultaneously allows recovering heterogeneity in demand, TFP and markups … quantify TFP, demand and markups and show how they are correlated among them, across time and with measures obtained from other …

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Sources of productivity spillovers : panel data evidence from China

Baltagi, Badi H.; Egger, Peter; Kesina, Michaela - 2014

This paper assesses sources of productivity spillovers in China's electric and electronic manufacturing industry using a rich panel data-set of 25,360 firms observed over the period 2004-2007. This industry is characterized by its important reliance on technology. In particular, the paper...

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