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Creative accounting or creative destruction? Firm-level productivity growth in Chinese manufacturing

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Brandt, Loren, Van Biesebroeck, Johannes, Zhang, Yifan·2012·Journal of Development Economics
DOI 10.1016/j.jdeveco.2011.02.002
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Authors
Brandt, L., Van Biesebroeck, J., & Zhang, Y.
Venue
Journal of Development Economics
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
2012-03
Volume
97
Issue
2
Pages
339-351
ISSN
0304-3878 (ISSN-L)
DOI
10.1016/j.jdeveco.2011.02.002
OpenAlex
W2067782665
Cited by
2,303
References
1
FWCI
109.48
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
bronze
Licence
www.elsevier.com/tdm/userlicense/1.0/ (tdm)

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