SME Policy and Firms’ Productivity in Latin America

Pablo Ibarraran (), Alessandro Maffioli () and Rodolfo Stucchi ()

No 4486, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)

Abstract: Very little is known about the effectiveness of SME policies, and a careful look at the structure, mechanisms and incentives provided by these policies suggest caution in their implementation and, most importantly, the need to carefully and closely monitor their results. This paper relies on the microeconometric analysis of a homogeneous dataset of sixteen Latin American and Caribbean countries to analyze the magnitude and determinants of the productivity gap between large and SME firms and to simulate of the impact on productivity of various policy scenarios.

Keywords: SMEs; SME policy; productivity; Latin America (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D24 L53 L60 O38 O54 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-dev, nep-eff, nep-ent and nep-sbm
Date: 2009-10

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