Misallocation, Property Rights, and Access to Finance: Evidence from Within and Across Africa

Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan, Bent E. Sorensen

NBER Working Paper No. 18030
Issued in May 2012

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This paper is prepared for the NBER-Africa Project. The authors thank the project for support. We thank Sevcan Yesiltas for superb research assistance. We also thank Mary Hallward-Driemeier, Simon Johnson, Marianna Sørensen, and participants at NBER-Africa Project conferences in Cambridge and Zanzibar for comments. The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

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