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Monthly economic indicators support policy analysis of current economic developments and forecasting. This paper presents an overview of the data and statistical requirements to develop those indicators taking into account resource constraints that LIC typically face. We review statistical...
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, increased the labor intensity of growth and, thus, reduced the rate of capital deepening. Technological shocks seem to have … played a minor role in explaining slower productivity growth in the euro area. In addition, a surge in capital deepening and …
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publicly listed firms in which the state has no ownership stake. In particular, Chinese listed SOEs are more capital intensive … and have a lower average product of capital than non-SOEs. These productivity differences increased between 2002 and 2009 …
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, broadly in line with the experience of advanced economies from past recessions. The impact is driven by employment, capital …
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This paper examines the response of firms to capital destruction, using a new measure of firmexposure to tropical … storms as a negative exogenous shock on firms' capital stock. Drawing on apanel of Indian manufacturing firms between 1995 …, the sales of less productive firms decrease disproportionatelymore, while across industries capital destruction leads to a …
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This paper investigates the impact of structural reforms on productivity growth. A panel analysis of 20 OECD countries finds that the impact of structural reforms on productivity growth may be weak or negative in the short run, possibly due to adjustment costs and the need for firms to learn how...
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This paper constructs an industry-level dataset of productivity across advanced economies, showing that Korea’s labor productivity and total factor productivity levels are below the median of other advanced economies. We identify sizable industry-level productivity gaps in Korea with respect...
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Productivity dispersion across countries has led to several studies on the determinants of firm level productivity and the role of macroeconomic policies in determining productivity. In this paper, we investigate the effect of fiscal consolidation on firm level productivity in 12 advanced...
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We show that distortion in the size distribution of banks around regulatory thresholds can be used to identify costs of bank regulation. We build a structural model in which banks can strategically bunch their assets below regulatory thresholds to avoid regulations. The resulting distortion in...
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weaker investment in intangibles, (iv) younger and smaller firms are more capital constrained than their older and larger … counterparts, (v) the responsiveness of capital growth to the marginal product of capital has declined, and (vi) large productivity … larger share of the capital stock. Our results suggest that declining private business dynamism is an important factor in …
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