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Monetary Policy, Product Market Competition, and Growth. Philippe Aghion, November 13, 2018, Paper, "In this paper we argue that monetary easing fosters growth more in more credit-constrained environ ments, and the more so the higher the degree of product market competition. Indeed when competition is low, large rents allow firms to stay on the market and reinvest optimally, no matter how funding conditions change with aggregate conditions. To…
Missing Growth from Creative Destruction. Philippe Aghion, November 2017, Paper, "Statistical agencies typically impute inflation for disappearing products based on surviving products, which may result in overstated inflation and understated growth. Using U.S. Census data, we apply two ways of assessing the magnitude of “missing growth” for private nonfarm businesses from 1983–2013. The first approach exploits information on the markets hare of…
Competitiveness and Growth Policy Design. Philippe Aghion, March 22, 2016, Book Chapter. "After decades during which governments in developed countries would privilege domestic demand as a main driver of economic growth, the advent of globalisation has forced governments to increasingly turn their attention to the competitiveness of the domestic economy, i.e. the extent to which a country can export its production abroad and thereby 'exchange…
Lessons from Schumpeterian Growth Theory. Philippe Aghion, May 2015, Paper. "By operationalizing the notion of creative destruction, Schumpeterian growth theory generates distinctive predictions on important microeconomic aspects of the growth process (competition, firm dynamics, firm size distribution, cross-firm and cross-sector reallocation) which can be confronted using rich micro data. In this process the theory helps reconcile growth with…
| Raffaella Sadun
Growth and Decentralization in Bad Times. Philippe Aghion, Raffaella Sadun, April 8, 2015, Paper. "Is decentralization beneficial to firm performance in “bad times”? We present a model where negative demand shocks increase the importance of rapid action, and improve the alignment of incentives of managers within firms. We test this idea exploiting the heterogeneous impact of the 2008-2009 Great Recession across industries and countries using…
Creative Destruction and Subjective Wellbeing. Philippe Aghion, April 2015, Paper. "In this paper we analyze the relationship between turnover-driven growth and subjective wellbeing, using cross-sectional MSA level US data. We find that the effect of creative destruction on wellbeing is (i) unambiguously positive if we control for MSA-level unemployment, less so if we do not; (ii) more positive on future wellbeing than on current well-being; (…
| Emmanuel Farhi
Liquidity and growth: the role of counter-cyclical interest rates. Philippe Aghion, Emmanuel Farhi, February 2015, Paper. "In this paper, we use cross-industry, cross-country panel data to test whether industry growth is positively affected by the interaction between the reaction of real short-term interest rates to the business cycle and industry-level measures of financial constraints. Financial constraints are measured, either by the extent…
| Raffaella Sadun
Never Waste a Good Crisis? Growth and Decentralization in the Great Recession. Philippe Aghion, Raffaella Sadun, October 20, 2014, Paper. "We argue that decentralization is particularly beneficial to firm performance in “bad times”. We present a model where bad times increase the importance of rapid action, and improve the alignment of incentives of managers within firms. We test this idea exploiting the 2008-2009 Great Recession using firm-…
Prof. Philippe Aghion: Innovation, Creative Destruction, and the Smart State. Philippe Aghion, March 20, 2014, Video. "Public Lecture - University of Zurich - Innovation, Creative Destruction and the Smart State..." Link verified August 21, 2014
Growth and the Smart State. Philippe Aghion, March 5, 2014, Paper. "As countries develop, the main driver of economic growth shifts from imitation to innovation. These two sources of growth require different policies and institutions. In particular, in this article we argue that the transition from an imitation-based to an innovation-based economy calls the old welfare state model into question. It is not so much the size of the state that is at…