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Over the last two decades, cash holdings in nonfinancial firms around the world have increased. This phenomenon is particularly concerning in Japan, where the success of Abenomics depends on a transition from stimulus-driven to self-sustaining growth based on private consumption and investment....
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The legacy of non-performing loans and high opportunity cost of government financing ofbank recapitalization impeded the efficiency of financial intermediation and are an importantpolicy issue in Vietnam. This paper presents a theoretical and empirical analysis of the issue.An empirical analysis...
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Bangladesh has experienced an accelerating economic growth in recent times and is poised to become a middle-income country by 2021. An increasing volume of apparel exports and a surging flow of inward remittances are the main drivers of growth. A transition to a middle-income country would...
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Rebalancing growth in favor of domestic consumption has been an objective of Chinese policy makers for over two decades. However, until recently little progress has been achieved. This article argues that the nature of the demand regime is a major reason for the limited rebalancing operated thus...
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productivity (TFP) growth in economics and management, yet little is known about its precision, especially when the capital stock … quantitative extent of capital measurement error when the initial condition is unknown to the analyst and when capacity utilization … and depreciation are endogenous. We propose two alternative measurements which eliminate capital stocks from the …
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investment affects some key macro variables, namely, market sector gross value added (MGVA), business investment, capital and … labour shares, growth in labour and total factor productivity, and capital deepening. We find (a) MGVA was understated by … productivity and capital deepening has been understated and growth in total factor productivity overstated (e) total factor …
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productivity (TFP) growth in economics and management, yet little is known about its precision, especially when the capital stock … quantitative extent of capital measurement error when the initial condition is unknown to the analyst and when capacity utilization … and depreciation are endogenous. We propose two alternative measurements which eliminate capital stocks from the …
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, intangible capital accounted for almost 35 percent of labor productivity growth in the Swedish business sector in 1995–2004. Thus …
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member states from 1998 to 2007. We find that (a) the marginal impact of ICT capital is higher when it is complemented with … intangible capital, and (b) non-R&D intangible capital has a higher estimated output elasticity than its conventionally …-calculated factor share. These findings suggest investments in knowledge-based capital, i.e., intangible capital, produce productivity …
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2003), and that this leads to the exclusion of more than $3 trillion of business intangible capital stock. To assess the … importance of this omission, we add intangible capital to the standard sources-of-growth framework used by the BLS, and find that … growth. The rate of change of output per worker increases more rapidly when intangibles are counted as capital, and capital …
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