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We examine micro-level channels of how financial development can affect macroeconomic outcomes like the level of income and export intensity. We investigate theoretically and empirically how financial constraints affect a firm's innovation and export activities, using unique firm survey data...
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We formulate a model to explain why the lack of political competition may stifle economic performance and use the United States as a testing ground for the model’s predictions, exploiting the 1965 Voting Rights Act which helped break the near monpoly on political power of the Democrats in...
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Most economists expected that the “Great Recession” produced by the financial meltdown of 2008 would usher in a resurgence of traditional Keynesian economics and a decline of what has come to be called “market fundamentalism." By contrast, also due to the inadequate size of the 2009...
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; productivity ; financial constraint ; export ; technology frontier ; BEEPS …
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experienced a decline in employment and a positive development in productivity while maintaining a significant contribution to …
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knowledge sector is bounded, as productivity increases, the economy moves from a "Solovian zone" where wages increase with … productivity, to a "Marxian" zone where the paradoxically decline with productivity. This is because as consumption of a given good … more unevenly distributed then productivity, technical progress always increases inequality. Redistribution from profits to …
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The analysis in this paper shows that unpredictable variations in economic productivity may have a positive or negative …. Empirical studies concerning these two factors indicate that unpredictable variations in economic productivity have a negative …
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How does risk or uncertainty in the productivity of research affect the growth rate of the economy? To answer this …&D from profit-maximizing firms. The uncertainty arises from the productivity of these investments in R&D. The main result of … this analysis is that the relationship between long-run growth and uncertainty (on the productivity of knowledge creation …
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the other hand, is the major force leading to convergence in productivity due to the effect of the diffusion of technology … convergence in productivity levels. The structural model is then tested for a set of OECD countries over the period 1965 to 1994 …
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