Exit in developing countries: Economic reforms and plant heterogeneity

Economic Development and Cultural Change

Volumn 58, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 537-561

  Alvarez, Roberto ^a   Vergara, Sebastián ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHILE   (Chile)

^b FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEVELOPING WORLD; ECONOMIC GROWTH; ECONOMIC REFORM; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; GLOBAL ECONOMY; MANUFACTURING; TAX REFORM;

CHILE;

EID: 77949455974     PISSN: 00130079     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/650422     Document Type: Article

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