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Hysteresis and business cycles
Cerra, Valerie; Fatás, Antonio; Saxena, Sweta Chaman - 2020
Traditionally, economic growth and business cycles have been treated independently. However, the dependence of GDP levels on its history of shocks, what economists refer to as 'hysteresis,' argues for unifying the analysis of growth and cycles. In this paper, we review the recent empirical and...
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A General Equilibrium Model of Sovereign Default and Business Cycles
Yue, Vivian Z. - 2011
Emerging markets business cycle models treat default risk as part of an exogenous interest rate on working capital, while sovereign default models treat income fluctuations as an exogenous endowment process with ad-noc default costs. We propose instead a general equilibrium model of both...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014399114
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Business Cycle in Czechoslovakia Under Central Planning : Were Credit Shocks Causing it?
Bulir, Ales - 1996
This paper examines credit origins of the business cycle in the former Czechoslovakia. Industrial production is found to be cointegrated with various measures of bank credit during 1976-90 and it is shown that noninvestment credits are Granger-causing industrial production and that a feedback...
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The Austrian Theory of Business Cycles : Old Lessons for Modern Economic Policy?
Oppers, Stefan E. - 2002
This paper reviews the ""Austrian"" theory of the business cycle first proposed by Friedrich Hayek in the 1920s. His theory claimed that credit creation by monetary authorities would push investment beyond society''s long-term willingness to save, creating a mismatch between supply and demand...
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Tracing productivity growth channels in the UK
Garcia-Macia, Daniel; Korosteleva, Julia - 2021
traces the sources of TFP growth in the UK over the last two decades through the lens of a structural model of innovation …, using registry data on the universe of firms. The dominant innovation source in the pre-GFC decade were improvements by … recovery, survey data suggests that creative destruction (i.e., innovation replacing other firms' products) is expected to gain …
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Innovate to lead or innovate to prevail : when do monopolistic rents induce growth?
Piazza, Roberto; Zheng, Yu - 2019
This paper extends the Schumpeterian model of creative destruction by allowing followers' cost of innovation to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012155163
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Institutions, innovations, and Growth
Xu, Chenggang - 1999
The fundamental importance of economic institutions for economic growth through their impact on technological change has been argued, reconfirmed by recent empirical studies, but not examined theoretically. This paper tries to fill that gap. In the model proposed, economic growth is affected by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014403467
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Technological Adaptation, Trade, and Growth
Chong, Alberto - 2000
This paper extends Grossman and Helpman’s seminal work (1991), and presents an endogenous growth model where innovations created in a high-tech sector may be assimilated or adapted by a low-tech sector. Applying a simple Heckscher-Ohlin framework, the effects of technological diffusion are...
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What drives innovation? : lessons from COVID-19 R&D
Agarwal, Ruchir; Gaulé, Patrick - 2021
To examine the drivers of innovation, this paper studies the global R and D effort to fight the deadliest diseases and … and innovation can be very large, as demonstrated by aggregate flow of clinical trials increasing by 38% in 2020, with …, while economists are naturally in favor of market size as a driving force for innovation (i.e.'if the market size is …
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Does the stock market boost firm innovation? : evidence from Chinese firms
He, Hui; Li, Hanya; Zhang, Jinfan - 2017
The paper analyses the effect of the stock market on firm innovation through the lens of initial public offering (IPO … firm innovation activity. In addition, IPOs expand a firm's scope of innovation beyond its core business. The impact of … IPOs on firm innovation varies across financial constraints, corporate governance, and ownership structures. Our results …
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