Chang, H.H.; Marrewijk, C. van - School of Economics, Universiteit Utrecht - 2011
Motivated by the work of Melitz (2003), Helpman, et al. (2004) and Yeaple (2005), micro-firm data provided by the World Bank Enterprise Survey is used to study the empirical productivity distribution across 15 Latin American countries. This paper differs from previous work in identifying four...