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You Are Suffocating Me! Firm-Level Evidence on Crowding Out

By Serhan Cevik

April 24, 2019

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Serhan Cevik. You Are Suffocating Me! Firm-Level Evidence on Crowding Out, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2019) accessed November 8, 2024

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Summary

Literature on whether government spending crowds out or crowds in the private sector is large, but still without an unambiguous conclusion. Using firm-level data from Ukraine, this paper provides a granular empirical investigation to disentangle the impact of state-owned enterprises (SOEs) on private firm investment in Ukraine—a large transition economy. Controlling for firm characteristics and systematic differences across sectors, the results indicate that the SOE concentration in a given sector has a statistically significant negative effect on private fixed capital formation, and that the impact of SOEs is stronger in those industries in which SOEs have a more dominant presence. These findings imply that private firms operating in sectors with a high level of SOE concentration invest systematically less than businesses that are not competing directly with SOEs.

Subject: Economic sectors, Expenditure, Government debt management, National accounts, Private investment, Public enterprises, Public financial management (PFM), Revenue sharing, Taxes

Keywords: Crowding-out effect, Dataset consist, Firm, Firm FE, Firm investment, Firm level, Firm-level analysis, Fixed investment, Global, Government debt management, Nonfinancial company, Private investment, Public enterprises, Revenue sharing, So, SOE density, State-owned enterprises, WP

Publication Details

  • Pages:

    15

  • Volume:

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  • DOI:

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  • Issue:

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  • Series:

    Working Paper No. 2019/080

  • Stock No:

    WPIEA2019080

  • ISBN:

    9781498311090

  • ISSN:

    1018-5941

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