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Impeded Industrial Restructuring: The Growth Penalty

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D.B. Audretsch (Indiana University)
M.A. Carree () (Erasmus University Rotterdam, Maastricht University, and EIM Business and Policy Research, Zoetermeer)
A.J. van Stel () (Erasmus University)
A.R. Thurik () (Erasmus University, and EIM Business and Policy Research, Zoetermeer)

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This paper documents that a process of industrial restructuring has been transforming the developed economies, where large corporations are accounting for less economic activity and small firms are accounting for a greater share of economic activity. Not all countries, however, are experiencing the same shift in their industrial structures. Very little is known about the cost of resisting this restructuring process. The goal of this paper is to identify whether there is a cost, measured in terms of forgone growth, of an impeded restructuring process. The cost is measured by linking growth rates of European countries to deviations from the optimal industrial structure. The empirical evidence suggests that countries impeding the restructuring process pay a penalty in terms of forgone growth.

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Paper provided by Tinbergen Institute in its series Tinbergen Institute Discussion Papers with number 00-095/3.

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Date of creation: 10 Nov 2000
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Keywords: Industry structure firm size distribution entrepreneurship economic growth

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O11 - Economic Development, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Macroeconomic Analyses of Economic Development
L11 - Industrial Organization - - Market Structure, Firm Strategy, and Market Performance - - - Production, Pricing, and Market Structure; Size Distribution of Firms

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