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institutions as well as deepening capital markets in developing countries to improve financing conditions and investment outcomes. … listing on a developed stock exchange shifts the capital structure towards more equity financing, and it increases the firmâ …
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This paper presents a framework for quantitatively evaluating the macroeconomic effects of corporate restructuring and applies it to Japan. Using firm-level financial statement data, it estimates total factor productivity (TFP) of individual Japanese firms. Given the estimated distribution of...
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-term oriented, with high implicit capital, and low risk (thanks to the law of large numbers). Trading is transactions …-based: scalable, shortterm, capital constrained, and with the ability to generate risk from concentrated positions. When a bank … engages in trading, it can use its ‘spare’ capital to profitablity expand the scale of trading. However, there are two …
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buffers. They also expanded abroad while the pace of corporate investment moderated. Regarding the latter, model estimates on … aggregate corporate investment over the post bubble period show that expectation about future profitability, in particular …
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We build a new dataset of listed and private nonfinancial zombie firms for a large set of Advanced Economies and Emerging Markets over the last two decades. We find that the share of these unproductive and unviable firms has been rising worldwide, especially since the GFC and the Covid-19...
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This paper studies the relation between firms' access to finance, labor productivity and investment using Lithuanian … characteristics, removing these constraints can improve average productivity and investment of firms in Lithuania by 0.51 percent and …
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The real effective exchange rate (REER) is the most commonly used measure for assessing international competitiveness. We develop a methodology to estimate the REER that incorporates two distinctive elements that are not considered in the current literature and apply it to the Mediterranean...
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This paper takes stock of the achievements toward integration in the West African Economic and Monetary Union (WAEMU) 10 years after the 1994 devaluation of the CFA franc. It investigates the lessons learned and evaluates progress toward economic convergence, examines the evolution of trade and...
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This paper examines the composition of primary commodity exports by industrial countries and contrasts this composition with that of the exports by developing countries. Both the share of industrial countries’ commodity exports in world commodity exports, as well as in their own total...
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Using a unique dataset with information on the currency composition of firms' assets and liabilities in six Latin-American countries, I investigate how the choice of exchange rate regime affects firms' foreign currency borrowing decisions and the associated currency mismatches in their balance...
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