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This paper investigates the role played by non-financial firms in Japanese corporate financing. We find that non-financial firms are an important source of credit for both small and large firms in Japan. We also document that adverse real and financial shocks have similar effects on small and...
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This paper investigates the stylized facts of prices and interest rates over the business cycles in nine OECD countries using quarterly data from 1960 to 2004. We examine the stylized facts used various detrending methods. Our findings confirm the existence of substantive cyclical regularities...
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We analyze the redistributive role played by governments during the 1990s expansionary economic cycle in several OECD countries. We find a duality among countries: while governments in the Euro-area play a crucial role in the redistributive process, government interventions reduce the...
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Frankel and Rose (1997, 1998) state that greater intensity of trading leads to more highly correlated business cycles across countries. Since 2005 Puerto Rico, which belongs to the US currency area, has suffered from economic stagnation. This raises the issue of whether currency areas lead to...
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inventories could in turn explain the GDP growth bounce-back pointed out in previous empirical studies. This calls for a careful …
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This paper investigates the role played by non-financial firms in Japanese corporate financing. We find that non-financial firms are an important source of credit for both small and large firms in Japan. We also document that adverse real and financial shocks have similar effects on small and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010629630
This note uses a dynamic stochastic general equilibrium model with direct preferences for financial wealth to explore how stock price booms and busts relate to the real side of the economy. It evaluates the 'speculative' (sunspots) and 'news' (anticipated future changes in productivity)...
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This paper attempts to examine empirically the dynamic relationship between inflation, growth and interest rate under … has a negative impact on both growth and the size of the informal activities, while inflation does not have a significant … effect on them. The influence of interest rate on growth and the size of the informal economy is found to be robust to VAR …
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The aim of this note is to investigate the relationship between economic growth and mandatory retirement in an … overlapping generations model where private investment in human capital is the engine of endogenous growth. We derive a novel … result in the retirement-growth literature by showing that the relationship between the mandatory retirement age and economic …
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This paper underlines the influence of trade diversification on GDP per capita growth. Using methodologies developed by … confirm that trade diversification has a positive effect on growth. However, this positive effect of diversification tends to … geographic diversification: to implement economic growth, developing countries should extend exports of new products rather than …
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