Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/125532 
Year of Publication: 
2015
Series/Report no.: 
IOS Working Papers No. 353
Publisher: 
Institut für Ost- und Südosteuropaforschung (IOS), Regensburg
Abstract: 
We analyze the relationship between institutional quality and firm efficiency. Using rich data on firms in the European Union between 2005 and 2012, we show that high institutional quality lowers the share of persistently inefficiently used assets. The adverse effect of low institutional quality may be one of the narrow channels through which institutions affect income per capita in the long-run. Our approach combines institutional economics and Schumpeterian creative destruction. In addition, we observe similarities between inefficiently used assets in Europe and the phenomenon of zombie lending in Japan during the last decades.
Subjects: 
institutions
unproductive assets
European Union
creative destruction
JEL: 
O43
K23
C33
Persistent Identifier of the first edition: 
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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