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What role can financial policies play in revitalizing SMEs in Japan?
Lam, W. Raphael; Shin, Jongsoon - 2012
The paper discusses the role the financial sector can play in supporting growth in Japan. While overall credit …). Firm-level SME data and sectoral corporate balance sheets show that many SMEs have faced structural challenges of high … support measures should be phased out and SME restructuring be accelerated. Efforts are also needed to deepen capital markets …
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COVID-19 and SME failures
Kalemli-Ozcan, Sebnem; Gourinchas, Pierre-Olivier; … - 2020
, Education, and Other Services are among the most affected sectors. The jobs at risk due to COVID-19 related SME business …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012391969
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Productivity drag from small and medium-sized enterprises in Japan
Colacelli, Mariana; Hong, Gee Hee - 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 …. SMEs, on average, exhibit lower productivity growth than non-SMEs in Japan, with smaller and older SMEs showing …
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International technology sourcing and knowledge spillovers : evidence from OECD countries
Chen, Sophia; Dauchy, Estelle - 2018
How much do firms benefit from foreign R and D and through what channel? We construct a global network of corporate innovation using more than 1.5 million patents granted to firms in OECD countries. We test the 'international technology sourcing' hypothesis that foreign innovation activities tap...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011848116
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The right kind of help? : tax incentives for staying small
Benedek, Dora; Budina, Nina; Deb, Pragyan; Gracia, Borja; … - 2017
Some countries support smaller firms through tax incentives in an effort to stimulate job creation and startups, or alleviate specific distortions, such as financial constraints or high regulatory or tax compliance costs. In addition to fiscal costs, tax incentives that discriminate by firm size...
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International R and D Spillovers and Institutions
Hoffmaister, Alexander W. - 2008
The empirical analysis in ""International R&D Spillovers"" (Coe and Helpman, 1995) is first revisited by applying modern panel cointegration estimation techniques to an expanded data set that we have constructed for the purpose of this study. The new estimates confirm the key results reported in...
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Are there International RandD Spillovers Among Randomly Matched Trade Partners? A Response to Keller
Coe, David T. - 1999
Keller (1998) reexamines Coe and Helpman’s (1995) analysis of international R&D spillovers focusing on the weights used to define the foreign R&D capital stock. Keller creates “random” weights and shows that they give rise to positive estimates of international R&D spillovers, casting...
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Liberating Supply-Fiscal Policy and Technological innovation in a Multicountry Model
Laxton, Douglas - 1998
This paper examines how endogenizing technological progress in a multicountry macroeconometric model affects the analysis of fiscal policies. It uses an expanded version of the IMF’s multicountry model, MULTIMOD, in which total factor productivity (TFP) is endogenized as a function of domestic...
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The Impact of Research and Development Tax Incentiveson Colombia's Manufacturing Sector : What Difference Do they Make?
Mercer-Blackman, Valerie - 2008
Do tax incentives for science and technology stimulate additional investment? We use detailed data on applications and acceptances for R&D tax incentives, a special survey, and for the first time, the science and technology module from the 2000-2002 Survey of Manufacturers database in Colombia...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014401520
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To ""B"" or Not to ""B"" : A Welfare Analysis of Breaking Up Monopolies in an Endogenous Growth Model
Xie, Danyang - 2000
This paper studies the welfare consequences of a government regulation that forces a patented equipment to be supplied by a number of independent producers. On the one hand, such a regulation hurts the value of a patent and therefore reduces activities in the R&D sector. On the other hand, the...
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