External Finance and Productivity Growth in Korea:Firm Level Evidence Before and After the Financial Crisis

This paper empirically investigates the finance-growth linkage in Korea by utilizing firm-level data of manufacturing industries before and after the 1997 financial crisis. We find that, first, an increase in external finance is associated with a faster subsequent capital accumulation of firms. Howe...

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Main Authors: Ahn, Sang hoon, Hahm, Joon-Ho, Kim, Joon-Kyung
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Korea Development Institute 2008-12-01
Series:KDI Journal of Economic Policy
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.23895/kdijep.2008.30.2.27