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consequences of changing firm concentration: productivity, distortions, selection into exporting, scale economies, and … firms is attributable to higher productivity growth rather than differential distortions. Exceptional performance of the top …
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We study the demand for government participation in China's venture capital and private equity market. We conduct a large-scale, non-deceptive field experiment in collaboration with the leading industry service provider, through which we survey both sides of the market: the capital investors and...
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How far is the world away from ensuring that every child obtains the basic skills needed to be internationally competitive? And what would accomplishing this mean for world development? Based on the micro data of international and regional achievement tests, we map achievement onto a common...
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-house confers a sector-neutral productivity advantage facilitating within-firm structural transformation. Consistent with the model …
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of the service sector have increased significantly. Moreover, total factor productivity growth has increased faster in … services have also grown significantly in terms of both value-added share and productivity. The results are robust to different …
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We augment Henderson, Storeygard, and Weil (2012)'s two-signal model of true income growth with a third signal to overcome its underidentification problem. The additional moment conditions from the third signal help fully identify all model parameters without ad-hoc calibrations of the GDP's...
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This paper examines the extent to which changes in working-age shares associated with population aging might slow economic growth in upcoming years. We first analyze the economic effects of changing working-age shares in a standard empirical growth model using country panel data from 1950-2015....
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Economic growth is typically measured in per capita terms. But social welfare should arguably include the number of people as well as their standard of living. We decompose social welfare growth -- measured in consumption-equivalent (CE) units -- into contributions from rising population and...
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Compared to a half-century ago, inequality in the United states has risen and measured productivity growth has fallen …-homothetic preferences and productivity improvements directed toward goods with larger market size. The model admits balanced growth despite … measured growth of output and productivity. Nevertheless, welfare improves at the same rate along both BGPs. At the root of the …
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This paper studies China's four-fold increase in per capita GDP relative to the U.S. between 1995 and 2019. First, we argue that China's growth pattern is very similar to that of several other East Asia economies that initially grew very quickly. Second, we show that a minimalist...
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