Investment Climate Assessment in Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines and Thailand: Results from Pooling Firm-Level Data

Investment Climate surveys (ICs) are a recent instrument used by the World Bank to identify key obstacles to country competitiveness and to guide policy reforms and government interventions in developing countries. In this paper, panel data from four ICs of four South East Asian (SEA) countries name...

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Main Authors:	Escribano, Alvaro, Guasch, J. Luis, de Orte, Manuel, Pena, Jorge
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	EN
Published:	2012
Subjects:	Capital Investment Capacity E220 Multinational Firms International Business F230 Economic Development: Financial Markets Saving and Capital Investment Corporate Finance and Governance O160 Formal and Informal Sectors Shadow Economy Institutional Arrangements O170 International Linkages to Development Role of International Organizations O190
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/10986/5695

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spelling	okr-10986-56952021-04-23T14:02:23Z Investment Climate Assessment in Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines and Thailand: Results from Pooling Firm-Level Data Escribano, Alvaro Guasch, J. Luis de Orte, Manuel Pena, Jorge Capital Investment Capacity E220 Multinational Firms International Business F230 Economic Development: Financial Markets Saving and Capital Investment Corporate Finance and Governance O160 Formal and Informal Sectors Shadow Economy Institutional Arrangements O170 International Linkages to Development Role of International Organizations O190 Investment Climate surveys (ICs) are a recent instrument used by the World Bank to identify key obstacles to country competitiveness and to guide policy reforms and government interventions in developing countries. In this paper, panel data from four ICs of four South East Asian (SEA) countries namely, Indonesia, Malaysia, The Philippines, and Thailand, are pooled to estimate total factor productivity (TFP) and allocative efficiency aspects of firms in each country, using variants of the Olley and Pakes (1996) productivity decomposition. Several economic performance results are disaggregated to obtain country-specific evaluation of the IC impacts. To establish priorities for policy reforms, the corresponding key IC results are organized in five categories: infrastructures, red tape, corruption and crime, finance and corporate governance, quality, innovation and labor skills, and other control variables. 2012-03-30T07:34:05Z 2012-03-30T07:34:05Z 2009 Journal Article Singapore Economic Review 02175908 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/5695 EN http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo World Bank Journal Article South Asia
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spellingShingle	Capital Investment Capacity E220 Multinational Firms International Business F230 Economic Development: Financial Markets Saving and Capital Investment Corporate Finance and Governance O160 Formal and Informal Sectors Shadow Economy Institutional Arrangements O170 International Linkages to Development Role of International Organizations O190 Escribano, Alvaro Guasch, J. Luis de Orte, Manuel Pena, Jorge Investment Climate Assessment in Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines and Thailand: Results from Pooling Firm-Level Data
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description	Investment Climate surveys (ICs) are a recent instrument used by the World Bank to identify key obstacles to country competitiveness and to guide policy reforms and government interventions in developing countries. In this paper, panel data from four ICs of four South East Asian (SEA) countries namely, Indonesia, Malaysia, The Philippines, and Thailand, are pooled to estimate total factor productivity (TFP) and allocative efficiency aspects of firms in each country, using variants of the Olley and Pakes (1996) productivity decomposition. Several economic performance results are disaggregated to obtain country-specific evaluation of the IC impacts. To establish priorities for policy reforms, the corresponding key IC results are organized in five categories: infrastructures, red tape, corruption and crime, finance and corporate governance, quality, innovation and labor skills, and other control variables.
format	Journal Article
author	Escribano, Alvaro Guasch, J. Luis de Orte, Manuel Pena, Jorge
author_facet	Escribano, Alvaro Guasch, J. Luis de Orte, Manuel Pena, Jorge
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title	Investment Climate Assessment in Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines and Thailand: Results from Pooling Firm-Level Data
title_short	Investment Climate Assessment in Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines and Thailand: Results from Pooling Firm-Level Data
title_full	Investment Climate Assessment in Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines and Thailand: Results from Pooling Firm-Level Data
title_fullStr	Investment Climate Assessment in Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines and Thailand: Results from Pooling Firm-Level Data
title_full_unstemmed	Investment Climate Assessment in Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines and Thailand: Results from Pooling Firm-Level Data
title_sort	investment climate assessment in indonesia, malaysia, the philippines and thailand: results from pooling firm-level data
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Investment Climate Assessment in Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines and Thailand: Results from Pooling Firm-Level Data

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