Predation, Protection, and Productivity: A Firm-Level Perspective.

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Abstract

This paper studies the consequences of predation when firms deploy guard labor as a means of protecting themselves. We build a simple model and combine it with data for 144 countries from the World Bank enterprise surveys, which ask about firm-level experiences with predation and spending on protection. We use the model to estimate the output loss caused by the misallocation of labor across firms and from production to protection. The loss due to protection effort is substantial and patterns of state protection at the micro level can have a profound impact on aggregate output losses. Various extensions are discussed.

Citation

Besley, Timothy, and Hannes Mueller. 2018. "Predation, Protection, and Productivity: A Firm-Level Perspective." American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 10 (2): 184-221. DOI: 10.1257/mac.20160120

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Besley, Timothy, and Hannes Mueller. 2018. "Online Appendix to: Predation, Protection, and Productivity: A Firm-Level Perspective." American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, DOI: 10.1257/mac.20160120.appx

Supplementary materials

  • Code and Data
    Besley, Timothy, and Hannes Mueller. 2018. "Replication data for: Predation, Protection, and Productivity: A Firm-Level Perspective." American Economic Association [publisher] DOI: 10.1257/mac.20160120.data
  • Data
    Statistics Norway. 2015. "Firm-level statistics 1975-2013 [dataset]" Norwegian Data Archive [curator], v2. DOI: 10.7654/nda::7643A::34
    • Data restricted-access, under Norwegian Data Access license (has residency requirement, has citizenship requirement), accessible at Norwegian Data Archive in Oslo, Norway

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