Entry costs, industry structure, and cross-country income and TFP differences

نویسندگان

  • Levon Barseghyan
  • Riccardo DiCecio
چکیده

Entry costs vary dramatically across countries. To assess their impact we construct a model with endogenous entry and operation decisions by …rms and calibrate it to match the U.S. distribution of …rms by size. Higher entry costs lead to greater misallocation of productive factors and lower TFP and output. In the model, countries in the lowest decile of the entry costs distribution have 1.35 to 1.50 times higher TFP and 1.57 to 1.82 times higher output per worker than countries in the highest decile. As in the data, higher entry costs are associated with a larger informal sector and overall number of operating …rms, a smaller number of legally registered …rms, and a higher concentration of employment in the smallest and largest …rms. JEL: L16, O11, O17, O4.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • J. Economic Theory

دوره 146  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2011