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Productivity Drag from Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises in Japan

Colacelli, Mariana - 2019

Productivity growth in Japan, as in most advanced economies, has moderated. This paper finds supportive evidence for the important role of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in explaining Japan's modest productivity growth. Results show a substantial dispersion in firm-level productivity...

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E-Commerce as a Potential New Engine for Growth in Asia

Kinda, Tidiane - 2019

The use of e-commerce around the world has accelerated in recent years, with Asia, led by China, spearheading the rise. Using cross-country enterprise survey data, this paper shows that firms engaged in e-commerce have higher productivity and generate a larger share of their revenues from...

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Firm Size, Life Cycle Dynamics and Growth Constraints : Evidence from Mexico

Misch, Florian - 2019

This paper examines the variation in life cycle growth across the universe of Mexican firms. We establish two stylized facts to motivate our analysis: first, we show that firm size matters for development by illustrating a close correlation with state-level per capita incomes. Second, we show...

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Transmission of Domestic and External Shocks Through Input-Output Network : Evidence from Korean Industries

Lee, Dongyeol - 2019

In the last two decades, manufacturing industries in Korea have become more concentrated, and interconnectedness across industries and to foreign countries has risen via vertical relationships and trade linkages. This paper investigates the transmission of economic shocks in such a highly...

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Trade Linkages and International Business Cycle Comovement : Evidence from Korean Industry Data

Lee, Dongyeol - 2019

larger positive GDP growth comovement, while higher import linkages lead to higher negative employment growth comovement …

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Is Technology Widening the Gender Gap? Automation and the Future of Female Employment

Brussevich, Mariya - 2019

Using individual level data on task composition at work for 30 advanced and emerging economies, we find that women, on average, perform more routine tasks than men?tasks that are more prone to automation. To quantify the impact on jobs, we relate data on task composition at work to occupation...

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Credit Supply and Productivity Growth

Manaresi, Francesco - 2019

We study the impact of bank credit on firm productivity. We exploit a matched firm-bankdatabase covering all the credit relationships of Italian corporations, together with a naturalexperiment, to measure idiosyncratic supply-side shocks to credit availability and to estimatea production model...

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Global Declining Competition

Díez, Federico J - 2019

Using a new firm-level dataset on private and listed firms from 20 countries, we documentfive stylized facts on market power in global markets. First, competition has declinedaround the world, measured as a moderate increase in average firm markups during 2000-2015. Second, the markup increase...

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You are Suffocating Me! Firm-Level Evidence on Crowding Out

Cevik, Serhan - 2019

Literature on whether government spending crowds out or crowds in the private sector is large, but still without an unambiguous conclusion. Using firm-level data from Ukraine, this paper provides a granular empirical investigation to disentangle the impact of state-owned enterprises (SOEs) on...

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Illuminating Economic Growth

Hu, Yingyao - 2019

This paper seeks to illuminate the uncertainty in official GDP per capita measuresusing auxiliary data. Using satellite …-recorded nighttime lights as an additional measurementof true GDP per capita, we provide a statistical framework, in which the error … inofficial GDP per capita may depend on the country's statistical capacity and the relationshipbetween nighttime lights and true …

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