Bergoeing, Raphael; Hernando, Andrés; Repetto, Andrea - In: Estudios de economía 37 (2010) 2, pp. 217-242
Starting in the mid 1970s, Chile implemented comprehensive structural market reforms. Using manufacturing plant …-level data on Chilean firms for years 1980 to 2001, we estimate the role of reforms on efficiency. We analyze aggregate … productivity constructed from micro data to find that in the aftermath of the reforms, efficiency gains were explained by within …