International Financial Integration and Entrepreneurial Firm Activity

Laura Alfaro, Andrew Charlton

NBER Working Paper No. 13118
Issued in May 2007

---- Acknowledgements -----

We thank Galina Hale, Ricardo Hausmann, Jean Imbs, Lakshmi Iyer, Simon Johnson, Cheryl Long, Roberto Rigobon, Steve Redding, Dani Rodrik, Kathy Terrell, Eric Werker, and participants at the Stanford Institute for Theoretical Economics summer workshop on Emerging Market Firms' Behavior, the Harvard Business School-BGIE seminar, the Kennedy School's LIEP, 2006-LACEA Conference, the Capital Flows-IMF 7th Jacques Pollak Conference, the 2007 AEA meetings, and seminars at the London School of Economics, the University of Michigan, and Columbia Business School seminar for valuable comments and suggestions. We are grateful to Todd Mitton for helping us with the IO data, Dun & Bradstreet and Dennis Jacques for helping us with the D&B data set, and HBS and LSE for financial support to purchase the data. We further thank Pamela Arellano for excellent research assistance. The views expressed herein are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

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