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We study capital misallocation within and across 10 African countries using the World Bank Enterprise Surveys. First … product of capital (MPK), implying that countries could produce significantly more with the same aggregate capital stock if … capital were allocated optimally. Such variation differs from country to country with some African countries (success stories …
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We study capital misallocation within and across 10 African countries using the World Bank Enterprise Surveys. First … product of capital (MPK), implying that countries could produce significantly more with the same aggregate capital stock if … capital were allocated optimally. Such variation differs from country to country with some African countries (success stories …
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financial efficiency in Africa. It uses updated data to appraise second generation reforms in order to gather fresh evidence and …
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We study the design of CDS auctions, which determine the payments by CDS sellers to CDS buyers following the defaults of bonds. Through a simple model, we find that the current design of CDS auctions leads to biased prices and inefficient allocations. This is because various restrictions imposed...
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Capital reallocation is procyclical and dispersion in Tobin's q across firms is counter-cyclical or acyclical. These … facts run counter to the Schumpeterian view of capital reallocation embodied in modern theories of business cycles. To … resolve the puzzles, we model an economy with search frictions in the market for used capital and shocks to aggregate …
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