| Titre : | Structural Reforms and Firms’ Productivity: Evidence from Developing Countries |
| Auteurs : | Wilfried Kouamé, Auteur ; Sampawende Jules-Armand Tapsoba, Auteur |
| Type de document : | Working Paper |
| Mention d'édition : | March 2018 |
| Editeur : | Clermont-Ferrand : Fondation pour les études et recherches sur le développement international (Ferdi), 2018-03-05 |
| Collection : | Document de travail / Working Paper |
| Sous-collection : | Development policies, num. 216 |
| Format : | 40 p. |
| Langues: | Anglais |
| Catégories : |
[Eurovoc] ÉCONOMIE > politique économique [Eurovoc] ÉCONOMIE > situation économique > développement économique > pays en développement [Eurovoc] ÉCONOMIE > structure économique > régime économique > réforme économique [Eurovoc] ENTREPRISE ET CONCURRENCE > type d'entreprise > entreprise |
| Tags : | structural reform ; firm-level productivity ; developing countries |
| Résumé : | This paper assesses the effects of structural reforms on firm-level productivity for 37 developing countries from 2006 to 2014 period. It takes advantage of the IMF Monitoring of Fund Arrangements dataset for reform indexes and the World Bank Enterprise Surveys for firm-level productivity. The paper highlights the following results. Structural reforms such as financial, fiscal, real sector, and trade reforms, significantly improve firm-level productivity. Interestingly, real sector reforms have the most sizeable effects on firm-level productivity. The relationship between structural reforms and firm-level productivity is nonlinear and shaped by some firms' characteristics such as the financial access, the distortionary environment, and the size of firms. The pace of structural reforms matters since being a " strong reformer " is associated with a clear productivity dividend for firms. Finally, except for financial and trade reforms, all structural reforms under consideration are bilaterally complementary in improving firm-level productivity. These findings are robust to several sensitivity checks including alternatives methodology and measure of productivity, and a counterfactual experiment based on unsuccessful reforms. |
| Note de contenu : |
1. Introduction
2. Datasets 3. Empirical strategy 4. Estimation results 5. Concluding remarks |
| Axe de recherche : | Intégration des pays en développement dans l'économie mondialisée |
| En ligne : | https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01723100 |
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