-seeking drives resources away from innovation. These two channels can help in understanding why Argentina has more misallocation …

This paper presents new evidence that cronyism reduces long-term economic growth by discouraging firms' innovation … on establishments' political connections, their innovation activities, and their access to policy privileges. The … politically connected firms to over 7 percent for unconnected firms. The results are robust across different innovation measures …

an extensive literature review, the paper identifies the main determinants of economic productivity as innovation …