Lin Shao

Correspondence:

Bank of Canada

234 Wellington Street W.,

Ottawa, ON K1A 0G9

lin.j.shao@gmail.com

Research

Firm dynamics, entrepreneurship, macro development and growth

Publication

• Economic Reforms and Industrial Policy in a Panel of Chinese Cities, December 2016,
  with Simon Alder and Fabrizio Zilibotti, Journal of Economic Growth.

• Are Working Hours Complements in Production?, June 2023,
  with Faisal Sohail and Emircan Yurdagul, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control.

Working Paper

• Aggregate Fluctuations and the Role of Trade Credit, October 2022,
  

• Financial Development Beyond the Formal Financial Market, October 2019,
  

• Firm Dynamics and Economic Development with Corruption and Financial Frictions, December 2019,
  with Simon Alder.

• Allocative Efficiency and the Productivity Slowdown, June 2023,
  with Rongsheng Tang.

• Labor Supply and Firm Size, July 2023,
  with Faisal Sohail and Emircan Yurdagul.

• Gender Gaps in Time Use and Entrepreneurship, August 2023,
  with Pedro Bento and Faisal Sohail.

Policy Writings

• Why was the Decline in U.S. Trade Larger This Time? A Global View, October 2013,
  with B. Ravikumar and Michael Sposi. The Regional Economist

• Discouraged Workers: What Do We Know, March 2014,
  with B. Ravikumar. Economic Synopses 2014(6)

• Accounting for Discouraged Workers in the Unemployment Rate, April 2014,
  with B. Ravikumar. Economic Synopses 2014(9)

• Have Labor Costs Slowed the Recovery?, July 2016,
  with B. Ravikumar. Economic Synopses 2016(15)

• Labor Compensation and Labor Productivity: Recent Recoveries and the Long-Term Trend, August 2016,
  with B. Ravikumar. Economic Synopses 2016(16)

• Complementarities Between Fiscal Policy and Monetary Policy—Literature Review, March, 2021,
  with Wei Dong, Geoffrey Dunbar, Christian Friedrich, Dmitry Matveev, and Romanos Priftis.
  Bank of Canada Staff Discussion Paper 2021-4.