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. While credit subsidies resolve misallocation of resources and enhance aggregate productivity, increased factor prices, in …
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their productivity and net worth and face collateral constraints that cause capital misallocation. TFP endogenously depends … on the time-varying distribution of firms. Although a reduction in real rates increases misallocation in partial … misallocation. …
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This paper explores the extent to which “zombie” firms – defined as old firms that have persistent problems meeting their interest payments – are stifling labour productivity performance. The results show that the prevalence of and resources sunk in zombie firms have risen since the...
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We study the leverage of U.S. firms over their life cycles and the connection between firm leverage, firm growth, and aggregate shocks. We construct a new dataset that combines private and public firms’ balance sheets with firm-level data from U.S. Census Bureau’s Longitudinal Business...
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Access to external finance is a major obstacle for small and young firms; thus, providing subsidized credit to small and young firms is a widely-used policy option across countries. We study the impact of such targeted policies on aggregate output and productivity and highlight indirect general...
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We develop a theory linking "misallocation," i.e., dispersion in marginal products of capital (MPK), to macroeconomic …
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This paper analyzes the link between monetary policy and capital misallocation in a New Keynesian model with … strongly in response to a monetary policy expansion, thus reducing misallocation. This feature creates a new time …-inconsistent incentive for the central bank to engineer an unexpected monetary expansion to temporarily reduce misallocation. However, price …
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. While credit subsidies resolve misallocation of resources and enhance aggregate productivity, increased factor prices, in …
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