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  "title": "Corporate Restructuring and Its Macro Effects",
  "publication": "IMF Working Papers, January 27, 2017",
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  "summary": "This paper describes issues in Korea’s corporate sector, the need for restructuring, and the authorities’ initiatives and challenges.",
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      "heading": "Summary",
      "content": "- Paper describes issues in Korea’s corporate sector, the need for restructuring, and the authorities’ initiatives and challenges.\n- Identifies lessons from other countries’ experience.\n- Conducts an econometric analysis based on cross-country aggregate data, compared with previous studies which mostly use firm-level data.\n- Main analytical finding: restructuring episodes, while sometimes challenging in the short term, have typically been associated with more rapid economic growth afterward.\n- Short-term effects: corporate restructuring could have a negative effect on the labor and the financial markets.\n- Medium-term effects: associated with positive growth through increased investment and capital productivity, outpacing the negative effects."
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      "content": "- Restructuring episodes are typically followed by more rapid economic growth.\n- Negative short-term impacts are observed on:\n  - Labor markets.\n  - Financial markets.\n- Positive medium-term impacts operate through:\n  - Increased investment.\n  - Increased capital productivity.\n- The paper’s econometric analysis uses cross-country aggregate data and is compared with prior firm-level studies."
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      "content": "- Authorities’ initiatives and challenges in Korea’s corporate sector are described (specific initiatives and challenges are discussed in the paper).\n- Policy focus areas implied by the analysis:\n  - Managing short-term labor-market disruptions from restructuring.\n  - Managing short-term financial-market disruptions from restructuring.\n  - Promoting investment and measures that enhance capital productivity to realize medium-term growth benefits.\n- Lessons from other countries’ experiences are identified to inform policy design and implementation."
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      "content": "- Empirical approach: econometric analysis based on cross-country aggregate data.\n- Comparative perspective: results compared with previous studies that mostly use firm-level data.\n- Country focus: Korea’s corporate sector is the central case for diagnostics and policy discussion.\n\n---\n\n Content in this bundle\n\n- Corporate Restructuring and Its Macro Effects\n  - Corporate Restructuring and Its Macro Effects (Markdown version){rel=\"alternate\" type=\"text/markdown\"}\n  - Corporate Restructuring and Its Macro Effects (PDF){rel=\"external\" type=\"application/pdf\"}\n\n---\n\nSource: https://www.imf.org/en/publications/wp/issues/2017/01/27/corporate-restructuring-and-its-macro-effects-44597"
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    "Authors: Jongsoon Shin",
    "Published: January 27, 2017",
    "Series: IMF Working Papers",
    "DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781475572438.001",
    "Paper describes issues in Korea’s corporate sector, the need for restructuring, and the authorities’ initiatives and challenges.",
    "Identifies lessons from other countries’ experience.",
    "Conducts an econometric analysis based on cross-country aggregate data, compared with previous studies which mostly use firm-level data.",
    "Main analytical finding: restructuring episodes, while sometimes challenging in the short term, have typically been associated with more rapid economic growth afterward.",
    "Short-term effects: corporate restructuring could have a negative effect on the labor and the financial markets.",
    "Medium-term effects: associated with positive growth through increased investment and capital productivity, outpacing the negative effects.",
    "Restructuring episodes are typically followed by more rapid economic growth.",
    "Negative short-term impacts are observed on:",
    "Positive medium-term impacts operate through:",
    "The paper’s econometric analysis uses cross-country aggregate data and is compared with prior firm-level studies.",
    "Authorities’ initiatives and challenges in Korea’s corporate sector are described (specific initiatives and challenges are discussed in the paper).",
    "Policy focus areas implied by the analysis:",
    "Lessons from other countries’ experiences are identified to inform policy design and implementation.",
    "Empirical approach: econometric analysis based on cross-country aggregate data.",
    "Comparative perspective: results compared with previous studies that mostly use firm-level data.",
    "Country focus: Korea’s corporate sector is the central case for diagnostics and policy discussion.",
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