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Employment Effects of Growth Rebalancing in China
Fund, International Monetary - 2009
This paper gauges the potential effects on employment of rebalancing China's exportoriented growth model toward … existing and new services as well as reorienting the production of tradable goods toward domestic markets. In China's case … paper shows that while rebalancing China's growth toward a domestic-demand-led economy would likely raise aggregate e …
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Investment-Led Growth in China
Ahuja, Ashvin - 2012
Over the past decade, China's growth model has become more reliant on investment and its footprint in global imports … has widened substantially. Several economies within China's supply chain are increasingly exposed to its investment …-led growth and face growing risks from a deceleration in investment in China. This note quantifies potential global spillovers …
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A Real Model of Transitional Growth and Competitiveness in China
Lipschitz, Leslie - 2008
We present a stylized real model of the Chinese economy with the objective of explaining two features: (1) domestic production is highly competitive in the sense that an accumulation of capital that raises the marginal product of labor elicits increases in employment and output rather than only...
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Stock Market and the Financing of Corporate Growth in Africa : The Case of Ghana
Yartey, Charles Amo - 2006
Intro -- Contents -- I. INTRODUCTION -- II. THEORIES OF CORPORATE FINANCE -- III. CORPORATE FINANCING PATTERNS AROUND THE WORLD -- IV. THE STOCK MARKET IN GHANA -- V. METHODOLOGY -- VI. EMPIRICAL RESULTS -- VII. THE RESULTS IN COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE -- VIII. SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS -- APPENDIX...
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Small Firm Growth and the VAT Threshold Evidence for the UK
Liu, Li - 2024
This paper studies the effect of the VAT threshold on firm growth in the UK, using exogenous variation over time in the threshold, combined with turnover bin fixed effects, for identification. We find robust evidence that annual growth in turnover slows by about 1 percentage point when firm...
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Being a Foreigner Among Domestic Banks
Horen, Neeltje van - 2009
Studying a large number of banks in various countries between 1999 and 2006, we document that foreign banks perform better when from a high income country, when host country competition is limited, and when they are large and rely more on deposits for funding. Foreign banks' performance improves...
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Spring Forward or Fall Back? The Post-Crisis Recovery of Firms.
Medina, Leandro - 2012
This paper studies corporate performance in the aftermath of the global crisis by examining 6,581 manufacturing firms in 48 developed and developing countries in 2010, identifying factors of resilience as well as vulnerability. Based on a cross-sectional analysis, the results show that...
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Unpacking Impact of COVID-19 on Vietnamese Firms: Evidence from a Novel Survey
Dabla-Norris, Era - 2022
Using a unique representative panel survey of Vietnamese enterprises in 2020, we find that the pandemic and associated government support package had a heterogenous impact across firms. The government support package, particularly tax cuts and deferrals, helped alleviate short term stress, but...
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Rogue Waves: Climate Change and Firm Performance
Cevik, Serhan - 2022
Climate change is an existential threat to the global economy and financial markets. There is a large body of literature documenting potential macroeconomic consequences of climate change, but firm-level empirical research on how climate change affects the performance of firms remains scarce....
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Tax composition and growth : a broad cross-country perspective
Acosta-Ormaechea, Santiago; Yoo, Jiae - 2012
We investigate the relation between changes in tax composition and long-run economic growth using a new dataset covering a broad cross-section of countries with different income levels. We specifically consider 69 countries with at least 20 years of observations on total tax revenue during the...
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