Distortions and the size distribution of plants: evidence from cross-country data

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• dc.contributor.author García-Santana, Manuel
• dc.contributor.author Ramos, Roberto
• dc.date.accessioned 2020-06-08T08:19:35Z
• dc.date.available 2020-06-08T08:19:35Z
• dc.date.issued 2015
• dc.description.abstract We study the relationship between economic distortions and the size distribution of plants using comparable plant-level data across 104 developing countries. Our main result is to show that, other things equal, countries with larger economic distortions allocate more labor to small unproductive units. By decomposing the business environment into different type of distortions, we find that poor access to financial credit is the one driving our results. We also show that there exists a significant cross-country relationship between the size distribution and aggregate productivity. These results are consistent with a large recent literature on misallocation of resources across firms.en
• dc.description.sponsorship The views expressed in this paper are those of the authors and do not necessarily correspond to the views of the Bank of Spain or the Eurosystem. Roberto gratefully acknowledges financial support of the Spanish Ministry of Education under research Grant BES-2009-026803.
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• dc.identifier.citation García-Santana M, Ramos R. Distortions and the size distribution of plants: evidence from cross-country data. SERIEs. 2015 Jul 26;6:279-12. DOI: 10.1007/s13209-015-0129-y
• dc.identifier.doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s13209-015-0129-y
• dc.identifier.issn 1869-4187
• dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10230/44919
• dc.language.iso eng
• dc.publisher Springer
• dc.relation.ispartof SERIEs. 2015 Jul 26;6:279-12
• dc.relation.projectID info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/3PN/BES-2009-026803
• dc.rights This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made.
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• dc.subject.keyword TFPen
• dc.subject.keyword Plant size distributionen
• dc.subject.keyword Economic distortionsen
• dc.title Distortions and the size distribution of plants: evidence from cross-country dataen
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