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Juan M. Sánchez

Bio: Juan M. Sánchez is an academic researcher from Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. The author has contributed to research in topics: Debt & Recession. The author has an hindex of 21, co-authored 110 publications receiving 1512 citations. Previous affiliations of Juan M. Sánchez include University of Rochester & Federal Reserve System.


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TL;DR: In this article, a costly state verification model of financial intermediation is presented to address the question of how important financial development for economic development, and the analysis suggests a country like Uganda could increase its output by 116 percent if it could adopt the world's best practice in the financial sector.

174 citations

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TL;DR: In this article, a costly state verifier framework is embedded into the standard growth model to address how technological progress in …nancial intermediation aects the economy, and the framework has two novel ingredients.
Abstract: To address how technological progress in …nancial intermediation aects the economy, a costly- state veri…cation framework is embedded into the standard growth model. The framework has two novel ingredients. First, …rms dier in the risk/return combinations that they oer. Second, the e¢ cacy of monitoring depends upon the amount of resources invested in the activity. A …nancial theory of …rm size results. Undeserving …rms are over …nanced, deserving ones under funded. Technological advance in intermediation leads to more capital accumulation and a redirection of funds away from unproductive …rms toward productive ones. Quantitative analysis suggests that …nance is important for growth.

167 citations

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TL;DR: In this article, all Matlab and C++ programs necessary to produce the results of the article were described and a spreadsheet with Mexican data was also provided, along with a spreadsheet containing Mexican data.
Abstract: All Matlab and C++ programs necessary to produce the results of the article. There is also a Excel spreadsheet with Mexican data.

150 citations

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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors developed a quantitative dynamic stochastic small open economy model with incomplete markets, endogenous fiscal policy and sovereign default where public expenditures and tax rates are optimally procyclical.

127 citations

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TL;DR: In this article, a costly state verification model of financial intermediation is presented to address the question of how important financial development for economic development, and the model is calibrated to match facts about the U.S. economy, such as the intermediation spreads and the firm-size distributions for 1974 and 2004.
Abstract: How important is financial development for economic development? A costly state verification model of financial intermediation is presented to address this question. The model is calibrated to match facts about the U.S. economy, such as the intermediation spreads and the …firm-size distributions for 1974 and 2004. It is then used to study the international data using cross-country interest-rate spreads and per-capita GDPs. The analysis suggests a country like Uganda could increase its output by 116 percent if it could adopt the world’s best practice in the financial sector. Still, this amounts to only 29 percent of the gap between Uganda’s potential and actual output.

73 citations


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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors formulate a version of the growth model in which production is carried out by heterogeneous establishments and calibrate it to US data, and argue that differences in the allocation of resources across establishments that differ in productivity may be an important factor in accounting for cross-country differences in output per capita.

1,299 citations

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TL;DR: Šonje et al. as mentioned in this paper used a sample of 35 countries for the period between 1860 and 1963 to show the relationship between income and financial depth measured by the ratio between bank's assets and GDP.
Abstract: relationship. All subsequent studies confirmed it (see for example King and Levine, 1993, and the review in: Pagano, 1993). Goldsmith used a sample of 35 countries for the period between 1860 and 1963 to show the relationship between income and financial depth measured by the ratio between bank's assets and GDP. He also showed that in periods of rapid growth, financial depth grows faster than income. More details about measuring financial depth can be found in this paper. FINANCIAL DEVELOPMENT AND ECONOMIC GROWTH Velimir Šonje

891 citations

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TL;DR: This article developed a model co-determining aggregate total factor productivity (TFP), sectoral TFP, and scales across industrial sectors and found that financial frictions disproportionately affect TFP in tradable sectors where production requires larger costs.
Abstract: Explaining levels of economic development hinges on explaining TFP dierences across coun- tries. In poor countries, total factor productivity (TFP) is particularly low in sectors producing tradable goods. We document that an important dierence between tradable and non-tradable sectors is their average establishment size: Tradable establishments operate at much larger scales. We develop a model co-determining aggregate TFP, sectoral TFP, and scales across industrial sectors. In our model, …nancial frictions disproportionately aect TFP in tradable sectors where production requires larger …xed costs. Our quantitative exercises show that …- nancial frictions explain a substantial part of the observed cross-country relationship between aggregate TFP, sectoral TFP, and output per worker.

884 citations

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TL;DR: In this article, the role of financial frictions in determining total factor productivity (TFP) was evaluated using producer-level data, and a model of establishment dynamics was proposed to reduce TFP through two channels: finance frictions distort entry and technology adoption decisions.
Abstract: We use producer-level data to evaluate the role of financial frictions in determining total factor productivity (TFP). We study a model of establishment dynamics in which financial frictions reduce TFP through two channels. First, finance frictions distort entry and technology adoption decisions. Second, finance frictions generate dispersion in the returns to capital across existing producers and thus productivity losses from misallocation. Parameterizations of our model consistent with the data imply fairly small losses from misallocation, but potentially sizable losses from inefficiently low levels of entry and technology adoption. (JEL E32, E44, F41, G32, L60, O33, O47)

874 citations