Misallocation, Access to Finance, and Public Credit: Firm-Level Evidence

Using a database of 23,000 firms in 45 economies, we test the quantitative importance of access to finance and access to public and private credit for the determination of misallocation. We first derive measures of factor market and size distortions, and then use these measures within a regression f...

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Main Authors: Miguel A. León-Ledesma, Dimitris Christopoulos
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: World Scientific Publishing 2016-09-01
Series:Asian Development Review
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Online Access:https://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/pdf/10.1162/ADEV_a_00075