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Products and provinces : a disaggregated panel analysis of Canada's manufacturing exports
Agur, Itai - 2016
The waning of the commodity boom places renewed emphasis on manufacturing as an engine for Canadian growth. However, Canadian manufacturing exports have been relatively stagnant since 2000. While the exchange rate depreciation over the past two years has energized export growth, the response has...
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International R and D Spillovers and Institutions
Hoffmaister, Alexander W. - 2008
productivity and that they impact the degree of R&D spillovers …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014400689
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International Spillovers of Taxiation
International Monetary Fund - 1989
This paper highlights key issues pertinent for the understanding of international effects of domestic tax policies and of international tax harmonization. The analytical framework adopts the saving-investment balance approach to the analysis of international economic interdependence focusing on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014396181
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Rapid Growth in Transition Economies : Panel Regression Approach
Iradian, Garbis - 2007
This paper analytically explores and empirically tests a number of hypotheses to explain the rapid growth in transition economies. The paper finds that growth in the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) has been higher because of the recovery of lost output, progress in macroeconomic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014400219
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Revisiting the Determinants of Productivity Growth : What's new?
Loko, Boileau - 2009
This paper studies the main determinants of total factor productivity (TFP) growth using principal component analysis … rationalizing government size, shifting resources from low-productivity sectors to higher ones, and encouraging women to enter the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014402271
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Corporate funding and the COVID-19 crisis
Deghi, Andrea; Seneviratne, Dulani; Tsuruga, Tomohiro; … - 2021
This paper assesses whether corporate liquidity needs in the G7 economies were met during the containment phase of the COVID-19 pandemic (February-June 2020) using various approaches to identify credit supply shocks. The pandemic crisis adversely affected nonfinancial corporate sector cash...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012518978
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The more the merrier? : a machine learning algorithm for optimal pooling of panel data
Bolhuis, Marijn A.; Rayner, Brett - 2020
We leverage insights from machine learning to optimize the tradeoff between bias and variance when estimating economic models using pooled datasets. Specifically, we develop a simple algorithm that estimates the similarity of economic structures across countries and selects the optimal pool of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012251287
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Firm-level data and monetary policy : the case of a middle-income country
Bounader, Lahcen; Doukali, Mohamed - 2019
We test the existence of the balance sheet channel of monetary policy in a middle-income country. Firm-level data scarcity and quality, in such a context, make the identification of this channel a steep challenge. To circumvent this challenge, we use panel instrumental variables estimation with...
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China's rising IQ (innovation quotient) and growth : firm-level evidence
Fang, Jing; He, Hui; Li, Nan - 2016
, and more interestingly, total factor productivity and new product revenue share. Event studies using first-time patentees … (SOEs) on average have lower level of productivity and are less innovative compared to their non-state-owned peers …, increases in patent stock tend to be associated with higher productivity growth among SOEs, especially for patents with lower …
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Innovation and corporate cash holdings in the era of globalization
Adler, Konrad; Ahn, JaeBin; Dao, Mai - 2019
We document a broad-based trend in rising cash holdings of firms across major industrialized countries over the last two decades, a trend that is most pronounced for firms engaged strongly in R and D activities. Our contributions to the literature are twofold. First, we develop a simple model...
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