Institutional quality and total factor productivity in Latin America and the Caribbean: exploring the unobservable through factor analysis

Alejandro Quijada

Revista ESPE - Ensayos sobre Política Económica, 2007, vol. 25, issue 53, No 53, 66-119

Abstract: This document determines, for a sample of Latin American countries, to what extent short-term variations in total factor productivity (TFP) are infl uenced by changes in institutional quality. Our empirical strategy is two-folded. First, we use statistical tools borrowed from factor analysis to extract from observable outcome indicators, unobservable common factors associated to TFP and institutional quality. Second, panel estimations are performed, linking the latent elements of aggregate factor productivity to the underlying common factors of institutional quality. Results are appealing: economic liberty is positively related to short-term total factor productivity

Keywords: productividad total de los factores; análisis factorial; latinoamérica. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C33 O47 O54 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2007
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