Contracts, Firm Dynamics, and Aggregate Productivity

Bernabe Lopez-Martin and David Perez-Reyna

Working Papers Central Bank of Chile from Central Bank of Chile

Abstract: We construct a firm-dynamics framework to evaluate the impact of the enforcement of contracts between final goods producers and intermediate goods suppliers on firm life-cycle growth, technology accumulation, and aggregate productivity. We show that contractual incompleteness implies a wedge on profits, which disincentives technology accumulation and is potentially correlated with technology, in addition to wedges on production decisions. We find that our model accounts for differences in output per worker of up to 33 percent across economies. The impact on firm life-cycle growth, the age and size distribution of firms is quantitatively significant.

Date: 2021-04
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