Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/70657 
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Year of Publication: 
2010
Series/Report no.: 
Working Paper No. 2010-16
Publisher: 
Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, Atlanta, GA
Abstract: 
This paper develops a model to assess the quantitative effect of entry cost and financial friction on cross-country income and total factor productivity (TFP) differences. The main focus is on the interaction between entry cost and financial friction. The model is calibrated to match establishment-level statistics for the U.S. economy assuming a perfect financial market. The quantitative analysis shows that entry costs and financial frictions together can generate a factor ten of the differences in income per capita and a factor five of the differences in TFP, and a large part of the differences are accounted for by the interaction between entry cost and financial friction. The main mechanism is that financial friction amplifies the effect of entry cost by boosting the effective entry cost.
Subjects: 
entry cost
financial friction
GDP per capita
TFP
JEL: 
O11
O43
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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