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WORKING PAPER SERIES
MANAGEMENT AND MISALLOCATION IN MEXICO
Nicholas Bloom
Leonardo Iacovone
Mariana
Pereira-Lopez
John Van Reenen
Working Paper 29717
http://www.nber.org/papers/w29717
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We thank the National Institute of the Entrepreneur (INADEM), the Ministry of Finance (SHCP),
the National Bank of Foreign Trade (BANCOMEXT), and the National Financing Institute
(NAFIN)
for leading and funding this survey and for their comments and suggestions. We also
thank
the National
Institute of Statistics and Geography (INEGI) for funding and implementing
the survey. We are grateful
to
Gerardo Durand, Santiago Avila, Araceli Martinez-Gama,
Fernando De Lira, Gabriel Romero, and
Natalia Volkow from INEGI for their support with the
data use in compliance
with the confidentiality
requirements set by the Mexican Laws. Bloom
and Van Reenen thank the ESRC for funding through
POID.
Helpful comments have been
received from participants in workshops at the 2022 American
Economic Association, the Census
Bureau, Empirical Management Conference, Lazaridis School
of Business and Economics, LSE,
Society for Economic Dynamics conference, and World Bank, in
particular, Louise Guillouet and
Diego Restuccia. The views expressed herein are those of the authors
and do not necessarily
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Management
and Misallocation in Mexico
Nicholas Bloom, Leonardo Iacovone, Mariana Pereira-Lopez,
and John Van Reenen
NBER Working Paper No. 29717
February 2022
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