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major financial or economic crash. With a shrinking labor force and declining efficiency of investment, raising productivity …
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the level of total factor productivity (TFP). In the model, a financial shock leads to a rise in the spread between the … TFP growth. In turn, this leads to permanent falls in the levels of output and labour productivity …
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The purpose of this paper is to examine the impact of macroeconomic variables and firm-specific factors on corporate profitability in Singapore and Hong Kong before, during and after the global financial crisis. This paper uses the two-step system Generalized Method of Moments to examine the...
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By examining their source and magnitude, this paper looked at the changes in the nature of Indonesia’s agglomeration economies over three distinct, successive periods: the pre-crisis boom (1990-1996), the deep crisis (1997-2000), and the post-crisis recovery (2001-2010). We found that...
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High-potential new ventures are a source of economic growth, which policy makers call upon in times of crisis when entrepreneurship is seen as a remedy to economic downturn. Yet at these times new ventures face intensified selection, and survival hinges on heterogeneous capabilities. We examine...
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In this study we find that the set of policies that favour liberalization in credit markets (regulatory quality) are negatively correlated with countries' resilience to the recent recession as measured by output growth in 2008 and 2009
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We demonstrate that common modeling assumptions underlying micro-unit productivity indices induce biases in the … evolution and decomposition of standard aggregate productivity measures. After controlling for such biases, we decompose … aggregate productivity based on groups of economically significant firm types. We show that large incumbent firms that both …
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This article analyzes the impact of institutional investors on firm productivity duringthe financial crisis 2008 … constrained indicating that foreign insti-tutional ownership prevents the known productivity slowdown during the financial …
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After the destructive impact of the global financial crisis of 2008, many believe that pre-crisis financial market regulation did not take the "big picture" of the system suffciently into account and, subsequently, financial supervision mainly "missed the forest for the trees". As a result, the...
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