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dc.contributor.authorBurker, Mathiasen
dc.contributor.authorMinerva, G. Alfredoen
dc.date.accessioned2012-06-07-
dc.date.accessioned2012-06-12T13:33:27Z-
dc.date.available2012-06-12T13:33:27Z-
dc.date.issued2012-
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10419/58363-
dc.description.abstractWe characterize how the size distribution of plants, within narrowly defined industries, changed in Italy over a ten-year time span, and relate this to the stock of civic capital at the provincial level. Data on plant size come from the 1991 and 2001 Italian censuses. Civic capital turns out to have a positive effect on both the average and standard deviation of size. Looking at several precise points of the plant size distribution, we find that it shifts toward the right and becomes more dispersed where civic capital is high. The potential endogeneity of current civic capital is addressed by instrumenting it with historical variables. Our main conclusion is that the geographic variation in the stock of civic capital poses substantial constraints on plants' ability to expand. Understanding this is the key for the implementation of effective industrial policies.en
dc.language.isoengen
dc.publisher|aUniversity of California, Department of Economics |cDavis, CAen
dc.relation.ispartofseries|aWorking Paper |x12-3en
dc.subject.jelA13en
dc.subject.jelD23en
dc.subject.jelL20en
dc.subject.jelR12en
dc.subject.ddc330en
dc.subject.keywordCivic capitalen
dc.subject.keywordCooperationen
dc.subject.keywordOpportunismen
dc.subject.keywordPlant size distributionen
dc.subject.keywordTrusten
dc.titleCivic capital and the size distribution of plants: Short-run dynamics and long-run equilibrium-
dc.typeWorking Paperen
dc.identifier.ppn717283291en
dc.rightshttp://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungenen

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