The Missing “Missing Middle”

By Chang-tai Hsieh, Benjamin A. Olken. 2014

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Capital Allocation and Productivity in South Europe (2017, background): “Larrain and Stumpner (2013) document changes in resource allocation in several Eastern European countries during financial market liberalization episodes. Bartelsman, Haltiwanger, and Scarpetta (2013) examine the cross-country and time-series variation of the covariance between productivity and size”
Misallocation, Establishment Size, and Productivity (2017, unknown): “…include countries with unbalanced populations of establishments, with some countries reporting data for all establish- 20For example, Hsieh and Olken (2014) study comprehensive firm-level data to study firm size distributions across countries but the focus involves three countries: India,…”
Firm Growth and Corruption: Empirical Evidence from Vietnam (2017, background): “Since firms in poor countries tend to be much smaller on average than firms in richer countries (Tybout, 2000; Hsieh and Olken, 2014), it is possible that the link between firm size and corruption explains part of the association between economic development and corruption.”
Informality: Causes and Consequences for Development (2020, background): “Finally, Hsieh & Olken (2014) find no evidence of a ”missing middle” in firm size distributions in the manufacturing sectors of India, Indonesia, or Mexico.”
In with the Big, Out with the Small (2014, unknown): “This includes Aghion et al. ( 2008 ) ; Alfaro and Chari ( 2009, 2014 ; Banerjee ( 2006 ) ; Besley and Burgess ( 2004 ) ; Goldberg et al. ( 2010a, b ; Hsieh and Olken ( 2014 ) ; McCaig and Pavcnik ( 2014 ) ; and Nataraj ( 2011 ) .”