Heterogeneity in lending and sectoral growth: evidence from German bank-level data

This paper investigates whether heterogeneity across firms and banks matters for the impact of domestic sectoral growth on bank lending. We use several bank-level datasets provided by the Deutsche Bundesbank for the 1996–2002 period. Our results show that firm heterogeneity and bank heterogeneity affect how lending responds to domestic sectoral growth. We document that banks’ total lending to German firms reacts pro-cyclically to domestic sectoral growth, while lending exceeding a threshold of €1.5 million to German and foreign firms does not. Moreover, we document that the response of lending depends on bank characteristics such as the banking groups, the banks’ asset size, and the degree of sectoral specialization. We find that total domestic lending by savings banks and credit cooperatives (including their regional institutions), smaller banks, and banks that are highly specialized in specific sectors responds positively and, in relevant cases, more strongly to domestic sectoral growth.

Dynamic estimation of the relationship between trade openness and output growth in Asia

This paper studies the relationship between trade openness and output growth for a sample of twenty-three Asian countries using both a static OLS and a dynamic ECM estimation models. At the country specific level, the findings of this study provide robust empirical evidence indicating that higher revealed trade openness is not the main engine explaining the Asian economic-growth miracle. In particular, the authors find that physical capital accumulation is at the core of the observed long-run output per worker growth. At the regional level, the authors observe a marked difference between the pre and post 1997–1998 financial crisis, whereas, in the post period, trade openness has a positive and significant effect on output growth. In general, the results from the dynamic estimations prove that the conventional OLS static estimates underestimate the effect of investment on output growth. In addition, the dynamic model allows for a separation of gains from trade between short term and long term. The paper results also provide evidence in support of the idea that, countries with a growing degree of trade openness may experience faster per-capita output growth through gains in productivity associated to capital accumulation, rather than the assumed technological spillover effects from the trading sector. Again, at the regional level in the post financial crisis period both short term and long term gains from trade are relevant to growth. Why more trade does not necessarily imply faster growth at all levels of revealed trade openness growth, remains a conundrum.     

Spillovers from foreign direct investment in services: Evidence at sub-sectoral level for the Asia-Pacific

We take a sectoral level approach to analyzing the effects of foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows. We disaggregate FDI first by manufacturing versus services, then within services by financial services, trade services, and business services. We consider the effects of FDI inflows on growth of GDP per capita, then distinguish between growth in manufacturing and services value added per capita. Our data sample comprises 14 Asia Pacific economies for the period 1985–2012 to which we apply a dynamic panel generalized method of moments estimation technique. Services FDI as a whole is found to have a significantly positive impact on GDP growth while manufacturing FDI is found to have no effect. The impetus for growth from services FDI traces to financial services in particular, acting not only directly on service sector output but through manufacturing sector output as well. By contrast, trade services FDI is found to have a significantly negative effect on manufacturing output with no significant effect on services output. Foreign participation in trade services may act to expose domestic manufacturers to international competition and may also lead to domestic consolidation to take advantage of economies of scale.     

Productivity in manufacturing and the length of the working day: evidence from the 1880 census of manufactures

Using micro-level data from the 1880 Census of Manufacturing, we estimate the elasticity of annual output with respect to the length of the working day. Holding labor and capital inputs constant and controlling for days of operation per month and months per year, this elasticity was positive but less than one, indicating diminishing returns. We also find diminishing returns to days per month and months per year, but these elasticities were significantly larger. Thus, decreases in daily hours coupled with an offsetting rise in annual days of operation would increase productive efficiency—precisely the kinds of changes then actually taking place.     

从产品分工走向功能分工：经济圈分工形式演变与长期增长

近年来长三角的产品分工的专业化程度开始下降,研发和专业服务逐渐向上海集中,中心城市上海和江浙之间存在从产品分工走向功能分工的迹象。事实上,近几十年以来日本和美国经济圈的中心城市与其他城市之间都出现了从产品分工向功能分工的演变：中心城市更多的发挥管理、研发和服务的功能,生产功能则主要由经济圈其他城市承担。这是一个比较普遍的现象。本文在南北贸易模型的框架下,从理论上分析了这种现象出现的机制及其影响。我们发现,无论是技术层面的如企业异地管理成本的减少,还是制度层面的如针对产业转移的行政壁垒的降低,都会使稳态中经济圈中心城市和其他城市之间的产品分工程度降低,功能分工程度上升,并且在稳态中,经济圈的技术进步率和经济增长率增加,居民效用的增长率提高。     

Steam power, establishment size, and labor productivity growth in nineteenth century American manufacturing

We use establishment-level data from the 1850–1880 censuses of manufacturing to study the relationships among establishment size, steam power use, and labor productivity. Large establishments, measured here by employment, were much more likely to use steam power than smaller establishments. By 1880, slightly more than half of all manufacturing workers were employed in establishments using steam power, compared with 17 percent in 1850 and we show that, after controlling for various establishment characteristics, steam-powered establishments had higher labor productivity than establishments using other sources of power. Moreover, this productivity differential was increasing in establishment size.     

Increasing returns and economic growth: some evidence for manufacturing from the European Union regions: a correction

There was an error in the specification of the regression equation(23) (p.100) in the original paper of Fingleton and McCombie(1998), although it does not greatly alter any of the estimatedcoefficients of interest.     

贸易开放度与中国经济增长关系的地区差异研究

为了探求中国的开放政策是否促进了经济增长，以及开放政策对不同区域的作用是否存在差异，本文在相关文献回顾的基础上，运用中国大陆地区28个省、自治区和直辖市（海南、重庆、西藏除外）1984-2004年的相关数据，采用Panel Data模型对贸易开放度与中国经济增长的关系问题进行了实证研究。研究的结论认为开放的对外经济贸易政策促进了中国的经济增长；井且通过研究发现这一促进作用存在着地区差异，对于中西部地区来说，促进作用更大。     

The role of China in global external imbalances: Some further evidence

The large imbalances in the current account positions of the US and the Asian economies are seen by most scholars as the main threat to an orderly development of the global economy. While the opinions on the most likely evolution of these imbalances and on their sustainability do differ across observers, ranging from catastrophic to rather optimistic views, almost all agree that some adjustment will have to take place in the near future, and that this adjustment will involve, among other things, a rebalancing of saving and demand across the globe. As an outcome of this process, China shall increasingly supplement the US in the role of engine of global economic growth.Using a global macroeconometric model, we examine the impact on this adjustment process of a number of shocks originating in the Chinese economy, including an expansionary fiscal shock, a revaluation of the renmimbi, and an expansion of internal demand following an acceleration in the process of rural–urban migration. The analysis focuses on two related points: how will these shocks affect the medium-run evolution of transpacific imbalances, and what will their impact be on global economic growth. The simulations allow us to track the impact of these shocks on the different poles of the world economy, and to assess their relative contribution to the task of reducing global imbalances without interrupting global economic growth.     

Asymmetric volatility of real GDP: some evidence from Canada, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States

The recent empirical investigation of conditional volatility in real GDP growth rates of Japan, the United Kingdom, and the United States by Hamori [Jpn. World Econ. 12 (2000) 143] finds no evidence of asymmetry. This paper re-visits the issue of asymmetric volatility using a similar approach with some modifications. We find statistically significant evidence of asymmetric volatility in the real growth rates of the United States and Canada. As such, it may be premature to conclude that business cycle indicators generally do not exhibit volatility asymmetry.     

Deindustrialization in 18th and 19th century India: Mughal decline, climate shocks and British industrial ascent

India was a major player in the world export market for textiles in the early 18th century, but by the middle of the 19th century it had lost all of its export market and much of its domestic market, primarily to Britain. The ensuing deindustrialization was greatest c1750-c1860. We ask how much of India’s deindustrialization was due to local supply-side forces—such as political fragmentation and a rising incidence of drought, and how much to world price shocks. An open, three-sector neo-Ricardian model organizes our thinking and a new relative price database implements the empirical analysis. We find local supply side forces were important from as early as 1700. We then assess the size of Indian deindustrialization in comparison with other parts of the periphery.     

Granger causality between money,output, prices and interest rates: Some cross-country evidence from the period 1875–1984

Zusammenfassung Granger-Kausalit?t zwischen Geldmenge, Produktion, Preisen und Zinss?tzen: Evidenz aus einem L?ndervergleich für den Zeitraum 1875-1984. - In diesem Aufsatz wird die Granger-Kausalit?t zwischen Geldmenge, Produktion, Preisen und Nominalzinsen auf der Grundlage langer Zeitreihen für elf L?nder untersucht. Empirische Untersuchungen sowohl in der Zeit- als auch in der Frequenzdimension zeigen, da\ die Geldmenge nicht geeignet ist, die Entwicklung der Produktion vorherzusagen. Tats?chlich scheint nur in Kanada, Italien und Norwegen eine einseitige Kausalbeziehung von der Geldmenge zur realen Produktion zu bestehen. Ein ganz anderes Ergebnis zeigt sich bei der Beziehung zwischen Geldmenge und Preisen. Dort l?uft die Kausalkette typischerweise von der Geldmenge zu den Preisen.

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Résumé Causalité de Granger entre la monnaie, la production, les prix et les taux d’intérêt: Quelque évidence trans-pays dans la période 1875–1984. - Cet article étudie la causalité de Granger entre la monnaie, la production, les prix et les taux nominaux d’intérêt en utilisant des séries des longues périodes pour onze pays. L’analyse empirique, en domaine de temps aussi bien que de fréquence, suggère que la monnaie n’aide pas à prédire les mouvements en production. En fait, seulement dans les cas du Canada, de l’Italie et de la Norvège il semble exister une causalité unidirectionnelle de la monnaie vers la production réelle. Un résultat tout à fait différent est trouvé pour la monnaie et les prix. C’est pourquoi, les prix sont typiquement causés par la masse monétaire pendant la période d’analyse.

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Resumen Causalidad ?Granger? entre dinero, producción, precios y tasas de interés. Evidencia a nivel de países del período 1875–1984. - En este trabajo se estudia la causalidad tipo Granger entre dinero, producción, precios y tasas de interés nominales utilizando series de tiempo largas de 11 países. Los análisis empíricos, tanto en el dominio del tiempo como en el de la frecuencia, sugieren que el dinero no ayuda a predecir los movimientos del producto en el tiempo. En realidad, sólo en el caso de Canadá, Italia y Noruega pareciera existir una causación unidireccional del dinero hacia el producto real. El dinero y los precios llevan a un resultado bastante diferente. Por ello, la causación va del dinero hacia los precios durante del período de la muestra.

     

Macroeconomic policy,output, and inflation in the former Czechoslovakia: Some evidence from the VAR analysis

Both macroeconomic policy and structural adjustment factors influenced the dynamics of output and inflation in the former Czechoslovakia during the first phase of its transition from central planning to markets. The results of VAR analysis indicate that, following price liberalization, the impact of structural adjustment processes on the level of output was somewhat stronger than the impact of macroeconomic policy. Moreover, it seems likely that a "looser" macroeconomic policy—advocated by many as a countermeasure to a large decline in industrial production—would only worsen the situation, bringing both higher inflation and a larger decline in industrial production.     

Trade Unions in Local and Regional Development and Governance: The Northern Trades Union Congress in North East England

From a position of relative isolation, trade unions have become increasingly important agents in local and regional development and governance in the UK since the election of the New Labour government in 1997. Analysis of the experience of the Northern Trades Union Congress (NTUC) suggests that devolution and regionalisation are exerting increasing pressures upon trade union federations to adopt a multi-level approach to organisation across a range of scales—local, sub-regional, regional, sub-national, national and international—to connect with the evolving multi-layered governance structures of the UK political economy. Strategic multi-level organisation suggests the decentralisation of power, authority and resources within the labour movement—challenging the national and centralised legacy of its collective bargaining history—and a division of labour and set of priorities at the different scales to build the links between local and regional engagement and trade union renewal.     

Decomposition of GDP Growth in Some European Countries and the United States

Summary  The composition of economic growth can be analyzed in two different ways. In the ‘traditional method’ for the decomposition of GDP growth, total imports are deducted from exports. This approach underestimates the importance of exports for the growth in GDP, and overestimates the importance of domestic expenditure categories. In the alternative methodology proposed in this paper, imports are allocated to all expenditure categories. Although this ‘import-adjusted method’ is more complex than the ‘traditional method’, it has the considerable advantage that the contributions of the expenditure categories to GDP growth provide a better understanding of why GDP growth decelerates or accelerates. The methodology and data requirements for calculating the import content of final demand, and the implications for the decomposition of real GDP growth, are discussed. For six European countries and the United States, the paper shows that applying the alternative methodology provides rather a different economic story.      

新疆对外贸易与经济增长的实证分析

本文根据新疆1990年-2005年的统计数据,利用协整理论和格兰杰(Granger)因果关系检验对新疆国内生产总值、投资和进出口贸易之间的关系进行分析。结果表明新疆国内生产总值与投资及进出口之间存在长期稳定的关系,投资和出口增长是拉动经济增长的原因,而经济增长却不是拉动投资、进出口增长的原因。     

经济转型与包容性增长的关联度

包容性增长是时代发展的必然要求,体现了公平与正义的科学内涵,是一种理想的经济发展方式。在经济转型深化阶段,中国经济社会问题的解决迫切需要以包容性增长理念为引导,将经济转型、政治转型、社会转型、文化转型等多种转型相互融合与协同推进,切实转变经济发展方式,才能实现国民经济的持续良好发展。