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A Multi-industry Model of Growth with Financing Constraints

By Anna Ilyina, Roberto M. Samaniego

May 1, 2009

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Anna Ilyina, and Roberto M. Samaniego A Multi-industry Model of Growth with Financing Constraints, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2009) accessed December 6, 2024
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This paper develops a multi-industry growth model in which firms require external funds to conduct productivity-enhancing R&D. The cost of research is industry-specific. The tightness of financing constraints depends on the level of financial development and on industry characteristics. Over time, a financially constrained economy may converge to the growth path of a frictionless economy, so long as an industry with the fastest expanding technological frontier does not permanently fall behind due to low R&D. The model’s industry dynamics map into a differences-in-differences regression, in which industry growth depends on the interaction between financial development and industry level R&D intensity.

Subject: Financial sector development, Industrial productivity, Labor, Productivity, Self-employment

Keywords: Growth rate, WP

Publication Details

  • Pages:

    52

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  • Series:

    Working Paper No. 2009/119

  • Stock No:

    WPIEA2009119

  • ISBN:

    9781451872668

  • ISSN:

    1018-5941