Plant-Size Distribution and Cross-Country Income Differences

Laura Alfaro, Andrew Charlton, Fabio Kanczuk

NBER Working Paper No. 14060
Issued in June 2008, Revised in December 2011

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We thank Daron Acemoglu, Jeff Frankel, John Haltiwanger, Chang-Tai Hsieh, Pete Klenow, Julio Rotemberg, Kei-Mu Yi, and participants at the NBER Economic Fluctuations and Growth Meeting and NBER International Seminar on Macroeconomics (ISOM) for valuable comments and suggestions. We are grateful to Dennis Jacques for helping us with the D&B dataset, and HBS and LSE for financial support. 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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