Creative accounting or creative destruction? Firm-level productivity growth in Chinese manufacturing

Journal of Development Economics

Volumn 97, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 339-351

  Brandt, Loren ^a   Van Biesebroeck, Johannes ^b   Zhang, Yifan ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^c LINGNAN UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

China; Entry; Exit; Industrial development; Reallocation; TFP

Indexed keywords

ERROR ANALYSIS; INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT; MANUFACTURING; TOTAL FACTOR PRODUCTIVITY; WORLD TRADE ORGANIZATION;

CHINA;

EID: 82455192241     PISSN: 03043878     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jdeveco.2011.02.002     Document Type: Article

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