SME policy and firms' productivity in Latin America

Arbeitspapier

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.

Angaben zum Objekt

• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 4486

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft ; Production; Cost; Capital; Capital, Total Factor, and Multifactor Productivity; Capacity ; Enterprise Policy ; Industry Studies: Manufacturing: General ; Technological Change: Government Policy ; Economywide Country Studies: Latin America; Caribbean
• Thema: SMEs ; SME policy ; productivity ; Latin America ; Klein- und Mittelunternehmen ; Wirtschaftsförderung ; Produktivität ; Wirkungsanalyse ; Lateinamerika

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Ibarrarán, Pablo ; Maffioli, Alessandro ; Stucchi, Rodolfo
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
• (wo): Bonn
• (wann): 2009

Weitere Informationen

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/36208
• URN: urn:nbn:de:101:1-2009102669
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 10.03.2025, 11:44 MEZ