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SME Policy and Firms’ Productivity in Latin America

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Ibarrarán, Pablo () (Inter-American Development Bank)
Maffioli, Alessandro () (Inter-American Development Bank)
Stucchi, Rodolfo () (Inter-American Development Bank)

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Abstract

Very little is known about the effectiveness of SME policies, and a careful look at the structure, mechanisms and incentives provided by these policies suggest caution in their implementation and, most importantly, the need to carefully and closely monitor their results. This paper relies on the microeconometric analysis of a homogeneous dataset of sixteen Latin American and Caribbean countries to analyze the magnitude and determinants of the productivity gap between large and SME firms and to simulate of the impact on productivity of various policy scenarios.

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Paper provided by Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) in its series IZA Discussion Papers with number 4486.

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Date of creation: Oct 2009
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Keywords: SMEs; SME policy; productivity; Latin America;

Find related papers by JEL classification:
D24 - Microeconomics - - Production and Organizations - - - Production; Capital and Total Factor Productivity; Capacity
L53 - Industrial Organization - - Regulation and Industrial Policy - - - Enterprise Policy
L60 - Industrial Organization - - Industry Studies: Manufacturing - - - General
O38 - Economic Development, Technological Change, and Growth - - Technological Change - - - Government Policy
O54 - Economic Development, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economywide Country Studies - - - Latin America; Caribbean

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