OECD Economic Survey of Costa Rica

Intro
 Acknowledgements
 Editorial
 Chapter 1. Setting the scene: An overview of Costa Rica's productivity performance
 Introduction
 Productivity is key to Costa Rica's convergence to higher-income countries
 The acceleration in productivity growth represents a structural trend
 Industry performance: The acceleration in productivity growth is broad-based
 Structural change: The role of labour movements across industries
 What this volume offers: Going beyond aggregate and industry trends
 References Chapter 2. FDI spillovers in Costa Rica: boosting local productivity through backward linkagesIntroduction
 Trade liberalisation, FDI and labour productivity
 Data and methodology
 Data
 Methodology
 Spillovers through foreign presence
 Model specification for manufacturing
 Model specification for services
 Spillovers through backward linkages
 Results
 Descriptive statistics
 Estimation results
 Spillovers through foreign presence
 Manufacturing specification
 Services specification
 Spillovers through backward linkages
 Manufacturing sector
 Manufacturing industries
 Services sector Service industriesRobustness check
 Limitations
 Conclusions
 References
 Annex A.
 Annex A1
 Annex A2
 Annex A3
 Annex A4
 Annex A5
 Annex A6
 Annex A7
 Annex A8
 Annex A9
 Annex A10
 Chapter 3. The Road to Development: Identifying upscaling opportunities for Costa Rica
 Introduction
 Data, definitions and methodology
 Data
 Definitions
 Economic Complexity Measures
 Upscale Opportunities
 Adjusted methodology
 Characterising the structure of international trade
 Revealed Relatedness Indexes (RRIs)
 Outpath and density indexes
 Results for Costa Rica Costa Rica's export structure reveals is a mix of high- and low-complexity exportsCosta Rica specialises in a number of related products
 Upscaling opportunities for Costa Rica
 What are the products and to which sectors do they belong?
 Benchmarking Costa Rica's upscaling opportunities with other Latin American economies
 Conclusion
 References
 Annex A.
 Annex B.
 Annex C.
 Annex D.
 Annex E.
 Chapter 4. Misallocation and Productivity in Costa Rica
 Introduction
 Model
 Data
 Results
 To what extent are resources misallocated in Costa Rica? The role of capital and output distortions on aggregate productivityDistortions and firm size
 Distribution of firms in absence of distortions
 Firm size, exporting status and productivity
 The role of distortions in firm entry, exit and productivity growth
 Conclusion
 References
 Annex A.
 Descriptive statistics of the firms in the sample
 Annex F.
 Industries included in the broad classifications