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Download or read book Macro Effects of Corporate Restructuring in Japan written by Mr.Se-Jik Kim and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 2003-10-01 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.