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The services sector is increasingly important for the euro area economy, but productivity growth in the sector has … stalled over the past two decades. Remaining barriers to cross-border trade in services within the EU Single Market contribute …. To remove the cross-border restrictions on services trade, we suggest combining incentives such as financial support …
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trade linkages and using the industry-level international input-output data. The results suggest that, first, the role of …
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reducing input tariffs. A 10 percentage point fall in output tariffs increases productivity by about 1 percent, whereas an … equivalent fall in input tariffs leads to a 3 percent productivity gain for all firms and an 11 percent productivity gain for …This paper estimates the effects of trade liberalization on plant productivity. In contrast to previous studies, we …
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This paper examines the role of sectoral spillovers in propagating sectoral shocks in the broader economy, both in the … past and during the COVID-19 pandemic. In particular, we study how shocks that occur within a sector itself and spillovers … supply and demand shocks-measured as changes in, respectively, productivity and government purchases at the sector level …
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-level domestic and international input-output data. The results suggest that, at the industry-level, higher export linkages lead to a …
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empirical findings are for positive spillovers from mining to the other two sectors. However, the estimated size of the … spillovers seems modest, which raises the question of the potential for mining to be better integrated with the rest of the …
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productivity and that they impact the degree of R&D spillovers …The empirical analysis in ""International R&D Spillovers"" (Coe and Helpman, 1995) is first revisited by applying …
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This paper presents some facts on China’s role in the world economy and measures the impact of China’s growth on growth in the rest of the world in the short and long term. Short-run estimates based on VARs and error-correction models suggest that spillover effects of China’s growth have...
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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...
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The IMF Working Papers series is designed to make IMF staff research available to a wide audience. Almost 300 Working Papers are released each year, covering a wide range of theoretical and analytical topics, including balance of payments, monetary and fiscal issues, global liquidity, and...
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