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Distortions in capital markets can create financial constraints that deter firms from pursuing optimal investment plans. This paper explores how much these constraints affect investment by ownership type in China, using a panel data model estimated with observations on listed firms for the...
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An important strand of research in macro-finance investigates which factors impede enterprise investment, and what is their aggregate economic cost. In this paper, we make two contributions to this literature. The first contribution is methodological: we introduce a novel framework to calibrate...
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The paper provides an empirical discussion of the national emergency utilization rate (NEUR), which is based on a "national emergency" definition of potential output and is published by the US Census Bureau. Over the peak-to-peak period 1989-2019, the NEUR decreased by 14.2 percent. The paper...
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utilization. First, it explains why utilization is a crucial variable for the various theories of growth and distribution … growth rate of demand that matters, not the level of demand. …
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utilization. First, it explains why utilization is a crucial variable for the various theories of growth and distribution … growth rate of demand that matters, not the level of demand.The paper makes three contributions. First, following up on …
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An important strand of research in macro-finance investigates which factors impede enterprise investment, and what is their aggregate economic cost. In this paper, we make two contributions to this literature. The first contribution is methodological: we introduce a novel framework to calibrate...
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financial development with economic growth. A recent theoretical literature offers a way of reconciling these two sets of …
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there is a relation in terms of both industry growth rates and shares of output devoted to R&D. Investment in R&D rather … countries' stages of economic development. For example, bank oriented systems are associated with higher growth of externally …
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China has achieved impressive growth over the last three decades. However, there has been debate over the sources of … the growth, and the role of the intensive versus extensive margin. Growth accounting exercises at the aggregate level …, there have been doubts about the contribution of TFP improvements to growth. For the period between 1978 and 1998, Young …
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The growth prospects of a nation are stymied by the burden of government debt. This study has two goals: first, it … tests whether public debt hinders growth; and, second, it explores whether economic policy ameliorates this effect. A large … panel data of countries for 1970-2010 reveal a negative and robust effect of public debt on growth. Strong institutions …
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