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Revisiting the finance and growth nexus : a deeper look at sectors and instruments
Unger, Robert - 2019
This paper investigates empirically whether the relation between finance and growth depends on a specific type of financing. I construct a novel panel data set for 34 high income countries over the time period from 1995 to 2014 based on financial accounts data. It allows distinguishing between...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011962798
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Effects of mergers on network models of the financial system
Nevermann, Daniel; Heckmann, Lotta - 2023
Despite the ongoing consolidation trend in the banking industry and the attention some mergers (in particular between large banks) have been receiving, there is no consistent picture of the impact of mergers on the stability of the financial system. In this paper, we aim to provide a universal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014435357
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Productivity, markups, and reallocation : evidence from French manufacturing firms from 1994 to 2016
De Monte, Enrico - 2024
This paper investigates the evolution of aggregate productivity and markups among French manufacturing firms between … 1994 and 2016, by focusing on the role of reallocation with respect to both aggregate measures. Firm-level productivity and … aggregate productivity growth of about 34% over the whole period while aggregate markups are found to remain relatively stable …
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Antiquity and capitalism : the finance-growth perspective
Dombi, Akos; Grigoriadis, Theocharis; Zhu, Junbing - 2020
This paper explores the impact of antiquity on capitalism through the finance-growth nexus. We define antiquity as the length of established statehood (i.e., state history) and agricultural years. We argue that extractive institutions and deeply entrenched interest groups may prevail in...
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Ancestry, Diversity & Finance : Evidence from Transition Economies
Dombi, Akos; Grigoriadis, Theocharis - 2017
In this paper, we analyze the growth effects of historical and biological ancestry, diversity and financial development in transition economies. We show that the common indicators of ethnolinguistic fractionalization, state history and genetic distance yield significant results and to some...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011596107
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Monetary policy, firm exit and productivity
Hartwig, Benny; Lieberknecht, Philipp - 2020
We analyze the influence of monetary policy on firms’ extensive margin and productivity. Our empirical evidence for the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012322407
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Economic growth through worker reallocation : the role of knowledge spillovers
Mäkynen, Eero - 2021
An establishment can improve its productivity by hiring workers from more productive establishments. Then, how … important is worker reallocation for aggregate productivity growth? To study this question, I develop a general equilibrium … knowledge diffusion mechanism increases the aggregate productivity growth by 0.14 percentage points and enhances welfare …
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The empirics of economic growth over time and across nations : a unified growth perspective
Cervellati, Matteo; Meyerheim, Gerrit; Sunde, Uwe - 2022
This research develops an expanded unified growth theory that incorporates the endogenous accumulation of physical capital, population, human capital, and technology. The model incorporates a complementarity between physical capital and human capital and can be extended to a multi-country...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014458861
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Natural resources, demand for external finance and financial development
Hattendorff, Christian - 2014
The paper contributes to the ongoing debate on the natural resource curse, which postulates a negative link between natural resource abundance and economic growth. It shows empirically that resource-rich countries appear to have a less developed financial system and investigates a potential...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010433905
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The role of financial development in private sector growth in Saudi Arabia
Hasanov, Fakhri J.; Darandary, Abdulelah; Alyamani, Ryan - 2023
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014445974