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From hibernation to reallocation: Loan guarantees and their implications for post-COVID-19 productivity

Demmou, Lilas - 2021

The paper analyses the role of loan guarantee programmes following the COVID-19 outbreak in alleviating firm distress as well as their broader impacts on productivity via reallocation, relying on a simulation model and econometric estimations. The simulation exercise relies on a simple cash-flow...

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Making digital transformation work for all in Chile

Garda, Paula - 2021

The sanitary crisis, created by the outbreak COVID-19, is accelerating Chile’s digital transformation, which has seen a surge in e-learning, streaming, online shopping and marketing and teleworking. The digital transformation has the potential to revamp productivity and inclusiveness, although...

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The impact of digitalisation on productivity: Firm-level evidence from the Netherlands

Borowiecki, Martin - 2021

This paper analyses the role of intangibles and digital adoption for firm-level productivity in the Netherlands drawing on a newly constructed panel data set of Dutch enterprises. It provides robust evidence on productivity effects of intangibles and digital adoption using firms’ exposure to...

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Are online platforms killing the offline star? Platform diffusion and the productivity of traditional firms

Costa, Hélia - 2021

Online platform use has grown remarkably in the last decade. Despite this, our understanding of its implications for economic outcomes is scarce and often limited to case studies and advanced countries. Using a newly built harmonised international dataset of online platforms and their use across...

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Mind the financing gap: Enhancing the contribution of intangible assets to productivity

Demmou, Lilas - 2021

their production or acquisition is more difficult than for tangibles. Building on the analytical framework recently …

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Raising productivity through structural reform in Brazil

Arnold, Jens Matthias - 2021

The recovery from the current deep recession caused by the COVID-19 pandemic will require raising productivity through structural reforms. This implies a number of challenges for economic policies. With large parts of the economy shielded from competition, firms face weak incentives to become...

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How effective are different social policies in Brazil? A simulation experiment

Arnold, Jens Matthias - 2021

Brazil spends around 15% of GDP on different social benefits, but within these expenditures, different benefits have different social impacts. While the small conditional cash transfer programme Bolsa Família is well-targeted to the poor and has a strong diminishing effect on inequality,...

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The effect of structural reforms: Do they differ between GDP and adjusted household disposable income?

Botev, Jarmila - 2022

The paper considers whether structural reforms have a different impact on adjusted household disposable income (AHDI … intensity (including cuts in corporate income tax and policies to simulate business R&D) or which can weaken the bargaining … reform policies (including in-kind family benefits, family cash benefits and cuts in the income tax wedge) have a magnified …

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Too little Destruction too little Creation : A Schumpeterian Diagnosis of Barriers to Sustained Growth in Ukraine

Gianella, Christian - 2007

This paper examines problems of entry, exit and competition in Ukrainian product markets. It finds that Ukraine still has too little of all three, and that exit mechanisms, in particular, function poorly. Since impediments to entry and exit are largely the product of excessive and ill...

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Do Corporate Taxes Reduce Productivity and Investment at the Firm Level? : Cross-Country Evidence from the Amadeus Dataset

Schwellnus, Cyrille - 2008

This paper uses a stratified sample of firms across OECD economies over the period 1996-2004 to analyse the effects of corporate taxes on productivity and investment. Applying a differences-in-differences estimation strategy which exploits differential effects of corporate taxes on firms with...

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