Entry costs and cross-country differences in productivity and output

By Levon Barseghyan. 2008

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Foreign direct investment and the ease of doing business (2015, background): “Similarly, Barseghyan (2008) finds that higher entry costs as measured by the Doing Business data reduce output per worker via a reduction in total factor productivity.”
Heterogeneous Markups, Growth, and Endogenous Misallocation (2020, background): “Such variation in the regulation of entry has been linked to cross-country income differences in Barseghyan (2008), Bento (2016), and Herrendorf and Teixeira (2011).”
The Impact of Business Environment Reforms on New Firm Registration (2010, unknown): “growth (Barseghyan, 2008; Klapper, et al., 2006; Djankov, et al., 2006; Black and Strahan, 2002; Hause and Du Rietz, 1984) and a reduction in informality (Antunes and Cavalcanti, 2009; DabiaNorris, et al.”
The Firm Size Distribution Across Countries and Skill-Biased Change in Entrepreneurial Technology (2018, background): “…productivity distribution visible in their Figure I suggests a large distortion of the entry and exit margin when seen through the lens of standard heterogeneous firm models (Hopenhayn (1992); see also Samaniego (2006), Barseghyan (2008), Poschke (2010a) and Moscoso Boedo and Mukoyama (2010)).”
Evaluating the effects of entry regulations and firing costs on international income differences (2012, unknown): “Total profit is given by (Mt denotes the mass of entrants at period t) Πt = Yt − wtLt − Ft − Tt −Mt(ce + κwt), (4)”
Firm lobbying and influence in developing countries: a multilevel approach (2012, background): “This work shows that higher startup costs, often measured as the number of days required to comply with the legal requirements to start a business, are associated with slower employment growth (Bertrand and Kramarz 2002) and reduced total factor productivity (Barseghyan 2008).”
Do Entry Regulations Deter Entrepreneurship and Job Creation? Evidence from Recent Reforms in Portugal (2014, background): “6 See, Bertrand and Kramarz (2002), Alesina et al. (2005), Djankov et al. (2006), Chari (2007), Aghion et al. (2008), Barseghyan (2008), Bruhn (2011), Kaplan et al. (2011) and Yakovlev and Zhuravskaya (forthcoming).”