Cross-country and within-country differences in the business climate

International Journal of Industrial Organization

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 368-371

  Bartelsman, Eric ^a,b,c   Haltiwanger, John ^d,e,f   Scarpetta, Stefano ^c,g  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b TINBERGEN INSTITUTE   (Netherlands)

^c IZA   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^e U S CENSUS BUREAU   (United States)

^f NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^g OECD   (France)

Author keywords

Comparative economic systems; Economic institutions; Firm dynamics; Firm level heterogeneity

Indexed keywords

BUSINESS CLIMATE; BUSINESS ENVIRONMENTS; ECONOMIC INSTITUTIONS; ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE; ECONOMIC SYSTEM; EMPIRICAL RESEARCH; FIRM DYNAMICS; FIRM-LEVEL HETEROGENEITY; LARGE AGGREGATES; THEORETICAL MODELS;

EID: 77955662299     PISSN: 01677187     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijindorg.2010.03.007     Document Type: Article

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