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Financial constraints and innovation : Why poor countries don't catch up
Gorodnichenko, Yuriy - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012462858
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Efficient Recapitalization
Philippon, Thomas - 2009
We analyze government interventions to recapitalize a banking sector that restricts lending to firms because of debt overhang. We find that the efficient recapitalization program injects capital against preferred stock plus warrants and conditions implementation on sufficient bank participation....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012463719
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Productivity, Efficiency, Scale Economies and Technical Change : A New Decomposition Analysis
Nemoto, Jiro - 2005
This paper aims to examine the productivity change of the Japanese economy using the data pertaining to the 47 prefectures during the period 1981-2000. The decomposition analysis of the Hicks-Moorsteen-Bjurek productivity index is conducted to explore the sources of the productivity change. In...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012467310
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Identification and Efficiency Bounds for the Average Match Function under Conditionally Exogenous Matching
Graham, Bryan S. - 2016
Consider two heterogenous populations of agents who, when matched, jointly produce an output, `Y`. For example, teachers and classrooms of students together produce achievement, parents raise children, whose life outcomes vary in adulthood, assembly plant managers and workers produce a certain...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012456576
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How Large is the Bias is Self-Reported Disability?
Benitez-Silva, Hugo - 2000
A pervasive concern with the use of self-reported health and disability measures in behavioral models is that they are biased and endogenous. A commonly suggested explanation is that survey respondents exaggerate the severity of health problems and incidence of disabilities in order to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471248
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Understanding Inflation : Implications for Monetary Policy
Cecchetti, Stephen G. - 2000
This paper discusses how optimal monetary policy is affected by differences in the combination of shocks an economy experiences and the rigidities it exhibits. Without both nominal rigidities and economic shocks, monetary policy would be irrelevant. Recognizing this, policymakers increasingly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471294
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On the Measurement of the International Propagation of Shocks
Rigobon, Roberto - 1999
In this paper I offer an alternative identification assumption that allows one to test for changing patterns regarding the international propagation of shocks when endogenous variables, omitted variables, and heteroskedasticity are present in the data. Using this methodology, I demonstrate that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471430
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No Contagion, Only Interdependence : Measuring Stock Market Co-movements
Forbes, Kristin - 1999
This paper examines stock market co-movements. It begins with a discussion of several conceptual issues involved in measuring these movements and how to test for contagion. Standard tests examine if cross-market correlation in stock market returns increase during a period of crisis. The measure...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471523
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Estimating Returns to Schooling When Schooling is Misreported
Kane, Thomas J. - 1999
We propose a general method of moments technique to identify measurement error in self-reported and transcript …, because the measurement error in educational attainment is non-classical, IV estimates also tend to be biased, although the … magnitude of the bias depends upon the nature of the measurement error in the region of educational attainment affected by the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471555
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Measuring Bubble Expectations and Investor Confidence
Shiller, Robert J. - 1999
This paper presents evidence on attitude changes among investors in the US stock market. Two basic attitudes are explored: bubble expectations and investor confidence. Semiannual time-series indicators of these attitudes are presented for US stock market institutional investors based on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471792