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JOURNAL OF REGIONAL SCIENCE
Volume 55, Issue 5, Pages 774-800Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/jors.12203
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This paper aims to contribute to the debate on the determinants of differentials in firms' productivity. We test the hypothesis that macro factors, especially the quality of local institutions, play a central role in explaining firm productivity in Italy. To this end, we construct measures of Total Factor Productivity (TFP) for about 4,000 firms by means of different estimation techniques, and a province-level index of institutional quality. Then, we estimate the relationship between institutional quality and firm-level TFP. Our results show that the existence of better local institutions might help firms to become more productive.
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