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This paper analyzes the importance of information technology (IT) in banking for entrepreneurship. To guide our … entrepreneurship by making it easier for startups to borrow against collateral. We provide empirical evidence that job creation by … lending channel for IT banks, entrepreneurship increases more in IT-exposed counties when house prices rise. In line with the …
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After impressive growth in the 2000s, China's productivity has more recently stagnated. We use firm-level data to analyze productivity and firm dynamism trends from 2003 to 2018. We document six facts that together show a decline in China's business dynamism. We show that (i) the revenue share...
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A defining feature of transition economies is the expansion of the private sector. Motivated by the observation that new enterprises in transition economies seem to have a strong preference for recruiting young people, this paper studies intergenerational redistribution following from market...
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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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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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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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inequality are characterized by dynamism-a drive toward sophisticated export industries, innovation, and creative destruction and …
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We provide an overview of the theories and empricial evidence on the complex relationship among innovation, competition …, and inclusive growth. Competition and innovation-led growth are critical to drive productivity gains and support broad …-based growth. However, new technologies and trends in market concentration are stifling future innovation while contributing to the …
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This paper examines whether the rapid growing firm patenting activity in China is associated with real economic outcome by building a unique dataset uniting detailed firm balance sheet information with firm patent data for the period of 1998-2007. We find strong evidence that within-firm...
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This paper extends the Schumpeterian model of creative destruction by allowing followers' cost of innovation to …
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