García-Santana, ManuelRamos, Roberto2020-06-082020-06-082015García-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-y1869-4187http://hdl.handle.net/10230/44919We 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.application/pdfengThis 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.info:eu-repo/semantics/articlehttp://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s13209-015-0129-yTFPPlant size distributionEconomic distortionsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess