Firm heterogeneity and endogenous regional disparities
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12694707 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Carlo Altomonte (0000-0001-9351-5078, Bocconi University, corresponding author), Italo Colantone (0000-0001-7609-6131, KU Leuven) |
| Year | 2008 |
| Volume | 8 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Pages | 779-810 |
| Publication date | 2008-04-15 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Economic Geography (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1468-2702 • E-ISSN: 1468-2710 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1093/jeg/lbn019 |
| OpenAlex | W2051050973 |
| Language | NL |
| Citations received | 7 |
| References cited | 20 |
We exploit the census of Romanian firms in order to provide a microfounded analysis of the sources of regional disparities in the country during the transition period, 1996–2001. To this extent, we adapt to the regional case a decomposition of firm-level output/value added dynamics based on semi-parametric productivity estimates. The methodology, robust to different techniques of TFP estimation, allows us to analyse the sources of regional disparities controlling for the heterogeneity in firms' characteristics. We find that the emergence of regional disparities is to a large extent endogenous to the interaction between the restructuring activity of incumbent heterogeneous firms and the initial distribution of economic activities. A lesser role is played by the standard drivers of firms' and workers' cross-regional reallocation
Demographic economics · Distribution (mathematics · Economic geography · Economic system · Economics · Estimation · Exploit · Macroeconomics · Order (exchange · Productivity · Restructuring · Shift-share analysis · Economic Growth and Productivity · Global trade and economics · Regional Economics and Spatial Analysis · Finance
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| Citations per year | 0.64 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2015 - 2025 (11) |
| Highly cited | No |