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dc.contributor.author | Bartelsman, Eric J. | en |
dc.contributor.author | Haltiwanger, John | en |
dc.contributor.author | Scarpetta, Stefano | en |
dc.date.accessioned | 2010-01-19 | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2010-07-07T12:06:05Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2010-07-07T12:06:05Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2009 | - |
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 |
dc.language.iso | eng | en |
dc.publisher | |aInstitute for the Study of Labor (IZA) |cBonn | en |
dc.relation.ispartofseries | |aIZA Discussion Papers |x4578 | en |
dc.subject.jel | E02 | en |
dc.subject.jel | L11 | en |
dc.subject.jel | L16 | en |
dc.subject.jel | L2 | en |
dc.subject.jel | L25 | en |
dc.subject.jel | O4 | en |
dc.subject.jel | O57 | en |
dc.subject.ddc | 330 | en |
dc.subject.keyword | Firm heterogeneity | en |
dc.subject.keyword | productivity | en |
dc.subject.keyword | allocation of resources | en |
dc.subject.keyword | distortions | en |
dc.subject.stw | Unternehmensentwicklung | en |
dc.subject.stw | Produktivität | en |
dc.subject.stw | Wirtschaftspolitik | en |
dc.subject.stw | Allokation | en |
dc.subject.stw | Wirkungsanalyse | en |
dc.subject.stw | Welt | en |
dc.title | Cross-country differences in productivity: the role of allocation and selection | - |
dc.type | |aWorking Paper | en |
dc.identifier.ppn | 616720548 | en |
dc.rights | http://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungen | en |
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