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Structural reforms to boost growth and living standards in Argentina
González Pandiella, Alberto - 2018
Over the last decades Argentina’s living standards have lost ground relative to other developed and emerging economies. Putting Argentina on a path to stronger, inclusive and job-rich growth requires boosting productivity and strengthening investment through wide-ranging structural reforms....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011823732
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Is the Growth Effect of Financial Development Conditional on Technological Innovation?
Bhatti, Arshad - 2015
This paper argues that excessive financial development in combination with high levels of technological innovation or R&D activities may lead to the former being ineffective in generating economic growth. This hypothesis is examined through a dynamic panel analysis using two measures of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013034506
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The Effect of Innovation Capacity on the Relationship between Volatility and Growth
Schilpzand, Rutger - 2022
Schumpeter’s notion of creative destruction assumes that volatile growth leads to a more efficient reallocation of resources and the adoption of new technologies. However, this can only occur if such productivity-enhancing opportunities are available within society. This availability is...
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Making Waves : To Innovate or be a Fast Second?
Yung, Chris - 2015
I model an innovation game in which firms can choose to be leaders or followers. Internal finance leads to a stalemate … firms compete in the capital markets to finance innovation (e.g., in the case of venture capital or IPOs) there is an … quality as each wave builds and crashes -- as a function of the risk of the innovation and the amount of external finance …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013037089
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Venture capital backed growth
Keuschnigg, Christian - 2002
not only finance but also advise start-up entrepreneurs and thereby add value to new firms. The paper demonstrates how a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011409024
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Firm-specific productivity risk over the business cycle: facts and aggregate implications
Bachmann, Ruediger; Bayer, Christian - 2009
Is time-varying firm-level uncertainty a major cause or amplifier of the business cycle? This paper investigates this question in the context of a heterogeneousfirm RBC model with persistent firm-level productivity shocks and lumpy capital adjustment, where cyclical changes in uncertainty...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010298831
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The cross-section of firms over the business cycle: new facts and a DSGE exploration
Bachmann, Ruediger; Bayer, Christian - 2009
Using a unique German firm-level data set, this paper is the first to jointly study the cyclical properties of the cross-sections of firm-level real value added and Solow residual innovations, as well as capital and employment adjustment. We find two new business cycle facts: 1) The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010298833
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Firm-specific productivity risk over the business cycle : facts and aggregate implications
Bachmann, Ruediger; Bayer, Christian - 2009
Is time-varying firm-level uncertainty a major cause or amplifier of the business cycle? This paper investigates this question in the context of a heterogeneous-firm RBC model with persistent firm-level productivity shocks and lumpy capital adjustment, where cyclical changes in uncertainty...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010266059
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The cross-section of firms over the business cycle : new facts and a DSGE exploration
Bachmann, Ruediger; Bayer, Christian - 2009
Using a German firm-level data set, this paper is the first to jointly study the cyclical properties of the cross-sections of firm-level real value added and Solow residual innovations, as well as capital and employment adjustment. We find two new business cycle facts: 1) The cross-sectional...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271782
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The cross-section of firms over the business cycle : new facts and a DSGE exploration
Bachmann, Ruediger; Bayer, Christian - 2009
Using a German firm-level data set, this paper is the first to jointly study the cyclical properties of the cross-sections of firm-level real value added and Solow residual innovations, as well as capital and employment adjustment. We find two new business cycle facts: 1) The cross-sectional...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003888063