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Accounting for China's growth
Brandt, Loren; Zhu, Xiaodong - 2010
China has achieved impressive growth over the last three decades. However, there has been debate over the sources of … quantifying their contributions to growth. In this paper, we develop a three-sector dynamic model to quantify the sources of China … continues to absorb more than half of all fixed investment. If capital had been allocated efficiently, China could have achieved …
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Banks and innovation: microeconometric evidence on Italian firms
Benfratello, Luigi; Schiantarelli, Fabio; Sembenelli, … - 2006
In this paper we investigate the effect of local banking development on firms' innovative activities, using a rich data set on innovation for a large number of Italian firms over the 1990's. There is evidence that banking development affects the probability of process innovation, particularly...
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Remittances, financial development, and growth
Giuliano, Paola; Ruiz-Arranz, Marta - 2006
Despite the increasing importance of remittances in total international capital flows, the relationship between remittances and growth has not been adequately studied. This paper studies one of the links between remittances and growth, in particular how local financial sector development...
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Financial development and the distribution of income in Latin America and the Caribbean
Canavire-Bacarreza, Gustavo; Rioja, Felix - 2008
One of the central concerns in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) has been the reduction of poverty and inequality so prevalent in the continent. Using large world samples, the literature has found that financial development increases economic growth, increases the income of the poor, and...
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Unemployment and finance: how do financial and labour market factors interact?
Gatti, Donatella; Vaubourg, Anne-Gaël - 2009
Using data for 18 OECD countries over the period 1980-2004, we investigate how labour and financial factors interact to determine unemployment. We show that the impact of financial variables depends strongly on the labour market context. Increased market capitalization as well as decreased...
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Financial constraints and innovation: why poor countries don't catch up
Gorodnichenko, Yuriy; Schnitzer, Monika - 2010
This paper examines micro-level channels of how financial development can affect macroeconomic outcomes like the level of income and export intensity. We investigate theoretically and empirically how financial constraints affect a firm's innovation and export activities, using unique firm survey...
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Executive Compensation and Competition in the Banking and Financial Sectors
Guadalupe, Maria; Cuñat, Vicente - 2004
This paper studies the effect of product market competition on the compensation packages that firms offer to their executives and in particular its impact on the sensitivity of pay to performance. To measure the effect of competition we use two different identification strategies on a panel of...
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Wage premia for newly hired employees: Theory and evidence
Kampkötter, Patrick; Sliwka, Dirk - 2011
We investigate wage differences between newly hired and incumbent employees. We show in a formal model that when employees care for wages as well as match-specific utility, incumbents earn less than new recruits if and only if firm-specific human capital is not too important. The existence and...
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Financial liberalization and the brain drain: A panel data analysis
Mitra, Aniruddha; Bang, James T.; Wunnava, Phanindra V. - 2011
This paper explores the impact of financial liberalization on the migration of high skilled labor from 46 countries to the OECD, taken at five year intervals over the period 1985-2000. Using an exploratory factor analysis, we are able to distinguish between two dimensions of financial...
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Differentiation and performance: An empirical investigation on the incentive effects of bonus plans
Kampkötter, Patrick; Sliwka, Dirk - 2011
It is often claimed that supervisors do not differentiate enough between high and low performing employees when evaluating performance. The purpose of this paper is to study the incentive effects of this behavior empirically. We first show in a simple model that the perceived degree of past...
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