Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/46141 
Year of Publication: 
2011
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 5471
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
Using firm-level data from nine developing countries we demonstrate that (a) certain institutions like restrictive labour market regulations that are considered to be bad for economic growth might be beneficial for production efficiency, whereas (b) good business environment which is considered to be beneficial for economic growth might have an adverse impact on production efficiency. We argue that our results suggest that the debate about the implications of institutional quality is far from being over, and classification of institutions into good and bad might be premature.
Subjects: 
institutional quality
production efficiency
stochastic frontier model
JEL: 
D02
D23
D24
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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