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| dc.contributor.author | | Bartelsman, Eric J. | | en_US |
| dc.contributor.author | | Haltiwanger, John | | en_US |
| dc.contributor.author | | Scarpetta, Stefano | | en_US |
| dc.date.accessioned | | 2010-01-19 | | en_US |
| dc.date.accessioned | | 2010-07-07T12:06:05Z | | - |
| dc.date.available | | 2010-07-07T12:06:05Z | | - |
| dc.date.issued | | 2009 | | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | | http://hdl.handle.net/10419/36105 | | - |
| dc.description.abstract | | This paper combines different strands of the productivity literature to investigate the effect of idiosyncratic (firm-level) policy distortions on aggregate outcomes. On the one hand, a growing body of empirical research has been relating cross-country differences in key economic outcomes, such as productivity or output per capita, to differences in policies and institutions that shape the business environment. On the other hand, a branch of empirical research has attempted to shed light on the determinants of productivity at the firm-level and the evolution of the distribution of productivity across firms within each industry. In this paper, we exploit a rich source of data with harmonized statistics on firm level variation within industries for a number of countries. Our key empirical finding is that there is substantial variation in the within-industry covariance between size and productivity across countries, and this variation is affected by the presence of idiosyncratic distortions. We develop a model in which heterogeneous firms face adjustment frictions (overhead labor and quasi-fixed capital) and idiosyncratic distortions. We show that the model can be readily calibrated to match the observed cross-country patterns of the within-industry covariance between productivity and size and thus help to explain the observed differences in aggregate performance. | | en_US |
| dc.language.iso | | eng | | en_US |
| dc.publisher | | IZA Bonn | | en_US |
| dc.relation.ispartofseries | | IZA Discussion Papers 4578 | | en_US |
| dc.subject.jel | | E02 | | en_US |
| dc.subject.jel | | L11 | | en_US |
| dc.subject.jel | | L16 | | en_US |
| dc.subject.jel | | L2 | | en_US |
| dc.subject.jel | | L25 | | en_US |
| dc.subject.jel | | O4 | | en_US |
| dc.subject.jel | | O57 | | en_US |
| dc.subject.ddc | | 330 | | en_US |
| dc.subject.keyword | | Firm heterogeneity | | en_US |
| dc.subject.keyword | | productivity | | en_US |
| dc.subject.keyword | | allocation of resources | | en_US |
| dc.subject.keyword | | distortions | | en_US |
| dc.subject.stw | | Unternehmensentwicklung | | en_US |
| dc.subject.stw | | Produktivität | | en_US |
| dc.subject.stw | | Wirtschaftspolitik | | en_US |
| dc.subject.stw | | Allokation | | en_US |
| dc.subject.stw | | Wirkungsanalyse | | en_US |
| dc.subject.stw | | Welt | | en_US |
| dc.title | | Cross-country differences in productivity: the role of allocation and selection | | en_US |
| dc.type | | Working Paper | | en_US |
| dc.identifier.ppn | | 616720548 | | en_US |
| dc.rights | | http://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungen | | - |
| Appears in Collections: | | IZA Discussion Papers, Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit (IZA)
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