Procuring Firm Growth: The Effects of Government Purchases on Firm Dynamics

Claudio Ferraz, Frederico Finan and Dimitri Joe de Alencar Szerman
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Dimitri Joe de Alencar Szerman: Núcleo de Avaliação de Políticas Climáticas, PUC-Rio

No 639, Textos para discussão from Department of Economics PUC-Rio (Brazil)

Abstract: This paper tests whether demand shocks affect firm dynamics. We examine whetherfirms that win government procurement contracts grow more compared to firms thatcompete for these contracts but do not win. We assemble a comprehensive data setcombining matched employer-employee data for the universe of formal firms in Brazilwith the universe of federal government procurement contracts over the period of2004 to 2010. Exploiting a quasi-experimental design, we find that winning at leastone contract in a given quarter increases firm growth by 2.2 percentage points overthat quarter, with 93% of the new hires coming from either unemployment or the informalsector. These effects also persist well beyond the length of the contracts. Partof this persistence comes from firms participating and wining more future auctions, aswell as penetrating other markets

Pages: 57p
Date: 2015-05
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