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highlights future investment and financing challenges, especially for road transport. The methodology piloted in this study can …
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sunk in zombie firms is associated with lower investment and employment growth of the typical non-zombie firm and less … investment and multi-factor productivity growth …
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The downturn in fixed investment among advanced economies from the onset of the global crisis was unusually severe …, widespread and long-lasting relative to comparable episodes in the past. As a result, investment gaps are large in many countries … points of GDP or more in several countries. A significant proportion of this investment shortfall is attributable to soft …
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analysis further identifies sources of financing in these subsectors and discusses future investment and financing challenges …
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weak, and investment remains focused on the adoption of existing technologies, which weighs on future productivity gains …
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While small- and medium sized firms in Austria are generally more productive, export more, and engage more in higher technology activities than in comparable countries, they need to adapt better to the knowledge economy to maintain their relative performance levels. The capital structure of...
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Productivity growth is slowing down among OECD countries, coupled with increased misallocation of resources. A recent strand of literature focuses on the role of non-viable firms (“zombie firms”) to explain these developments. Using a rich firm-level dataset for one of the OECD countries...
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Investments in both human and physical capital are key drivers of economic growth and productivity gains. The United Kingdom has had a turbulent recent history, being strongly affected by the Global Financial Crisis of 2008 and more recently voting to leave the European Union, its largest...
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response of investment to continued demand weakness, leading in turn to a deterioration in potential output via a hysteresis … government investment as a share of GDP has further exacerbated post-crisis weakness in capital stock growth, both directly and … probably indirectly via adverse spillover effects on business investment. Finally, at a time when the use of conventional macro …
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capital stock since the financial crisis can be explained by an accelerator response of investment to continued demand …. In many OECD countries, declining government investment as a share of GDP has further exacerbated post-crisis weakness in … capital stock growth, both directly and probably indirectly via adverse spillover effects on business investment. Finally …
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