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Aghion, Philippe - 2012

Using a comprehensive dataset of all medium and large enterprises in China between 1998 and 2007, we show that industrial policies allocated to competitive sectors or that foster competition in a sector increase productivity growth. We measure competition using the Lerner Index and include as...

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Industrial Policy, Employer Size, and Economic Performance in Sweden

Davis, Steven J. - 1995

The pre-1990 Swedish tax system strongly disfavored younger, smaller and less capital-intensive firms and sectors and discouraged entrepreneurship and family ownership of businesses in favor of institutional ownership. Credit market regulations, the national pension system, employment security...

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The Determinants of National Competitiveness

Delgado, Mercedes - 2012

We define foundational competitiveness as the expected level of output per working-age individual that is supported by the overall quality of a country as a place to do business. The focus on output per potential worker, a broader measure of national productivity than output per current worker,...

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Mauritius : African Success Story

Frankel, Jeffrey A. - 2010

What explains the success of Mauritius, a top performer among African countries? It has mostly followed growth-enhancing policies, which can in turn be attributed to sound institutions. But from where did the institutions come? Mauritius chose well around the time of independence in 1968, for...

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Understanding PPPs and PPP-based national accounts

Deaton, Angus - 2008

PPP-based national accounts have become an important part of the database for macroeconomists, development economists, and economic historians. Frequently used global data come from the Penn World Table (PWT) and the World Bank's World Development Indicators; a substantial fraction of the world...

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Infrastructure in a Structural Model of Economic Growth

Holtz-Eakin, Douglas - 1994

Researchers, commentators, and politicians have devoted steadily more attention to infrastructure in response to claims that inadequate accumulation of public capital has contributed to substandard U.S. economic growth. Despite this, the link between infrastructure and productivity growth...

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AI and the Economy

Furman, Jason - 2018

We review the evidence that artificial intelligence (AI) is having a large effect on the economy. Across a variety of …

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Productivity Growth and Levels in France, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States in the Twentieth Century

Cette, Gilbert - 2009

growth varies considerably over time and across the four countries, and it is always less important, except in Japan, than … Japan (30%), while TFP levels are very close in France, the United Kingdom and the United States, but much lower (40%) in … Japan …

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Business Groups and the Big Push : Meiji Japan's Mass Privatization and Subsequent Growth

Morck, Randall - 2007

Japan's zaibatsu, or pyramidal business groups, provided this coordination after the Meiji government failed at the task. We … that unique historical circumstances aided their success in prewar Japan. Specifically, Japan uniquely marginalized its …

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The Evolution of Income Concentration in Japan, 1886-2002 : Evidence from Income Tax Statistics

Moriguchi, Chiaki - 2006

This paper studies the evolution of income concentration in Japan from 1886 to 2002 by constructing long-run series of … despite the high economic growth; and (4) top income composition in Japan has shifted dramatically from capital income to … Japan have remained remarkably stable over the recent decades. We show that the change in technology or tax policies alone …

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