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We provide the first direct estimates of distribution expenses incurred by manufacturing plants and assess their importance for aggregate output. Using a novel measure from the Indian Annual Survey of Industries, we document three key facts: (1) distribution expenses are large – they amount to...
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Housing market imbalances are a key source of systemic risk and can adversely affect housing affordability. This paper utilizes a stylized model of the Canadian economy that includes policymakers with differing objectives-macroeconomic stability, financial stability, and housing affordability....
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We provide a systematic analysis of the properties of individual returns to wealth using twelve years ofpopulation data from Norway's administrative tax records. We document a number of novel results.First, during our sample period individuals earn markedly different average returns on their...
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This paper is the first comprehensive empirical study of earnings, income, and consumption inequality in urban China from 1986 to 2009, using unique micro-level data from the Urban Household Survey (UHS). The paper documents a drastic increase in economic inequality for the sample period. The...
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-or-sow" model of growth. High volatility of permanent shocks results in high precautionary saving in the safe asset and low …
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Economic volatility remains a fact of life in Sub Saharan Africa (SSA). Household-level shocks create large consumption fluctuations, raising the incidence of poverty. Drawing on micro-level data from South Africa and Tanzania, we examine the vulnerability to shocks across household types (e.g....
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weak companies and its impact on resource allocation, economic growth, inflation, and financial stability. Using both firm … implementation, especially in countries where growth is lackluster. Our findings imply a tradeoff between conducting a … an expansionary monetary policy for long periods, which may lead to a combination of low interest rates, low growth, and …
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The contribution of the information and communication technology (ICT) sector to growth in Asian economies is clearly … paper employs an extension of the standard growth accounting framework, using estimates of stock of ICT capital (hardware …, software, and telecommunications equipment), to estimate the direct contributions to growth. The contribution of ICT to growth …
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amount of momentum towards fast growth. There is a possibility that, within the wider context of globalization, several of …
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important growth spillovers in the region, and identifies the main source countries and those most vulnerable to the economic … conditions of others. Estimates show that in the short run, positive idiosyncratic shocks to regional trading partners' growth … significantly increase growth in the average sub-Saharan African country, while in the long-run the annual impact of growth in …
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