Macro Effects of Corporate Restructuring in Japan

October 1, 2003

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Se-Jik Kim. Macro Effects of Corporate Restructuring in Japan, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2003) accessed November 24, 2024

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Summary

This paper presents a framework for quantitatively evaluating the macroeconomic effects of corporate restructuring and applies it to Japan. Using firm-level financial statement data, it estimates total factor productivity (TFP) of individual Japanese firms. Given the estimated distribution of productivity across firms, the paper simulates the effect of optimal restructuring, that is, reallocation of resources from less-productive firms to more-productive ones, on the dynamic path of aggregate output. The results show that the benefits of restructuring could substantially exceed the costs.

Subject: Labor, Labor share, National accounts, Personal income, Production, Productivity, Total factor productivity

Keywords: Corporate restructuring, Distribution of productivity, Financial statement data, Firm, Firm well, Firms in Japan, Japan, Labor share, Macro effects, Percent firm, Personal income, Productivity, Restructured firm, Th firm, Total factor productivity, WP

Publication Details

Pages:

33
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Working Paper No. 2003/203
Stock No:

WPIEA2032003
ISBN:

9781451874471
ISSN:

1018-5941

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