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We are grateful to Nick Bloom, Luis Cabral, Liran Einav, Rosa Ferrer, Stefano Gagliarducci, Ricard Gil, Luigi Guiso, Hugo Hopenhayn, Neale Mahoney, Rob Metcalfe, Enrico Moretti, Gustavo Piga, Piero Sabbatini, Stephane Saussier, Steve Tadelis, Paola Valbonesi and to the participants at the seminars at Barcelona GSE, Berkeley, FGV, Stanford University, Stockholm University, University of Bologna and University of Paris I for their useful suggestions. We thank Acea for sharing its data. We also thankfully acknowledge financial support from both the European Research Council (ERC Starting Grant 679217, Decarolis) and the Wallander and Hedelius foundation (Handelsbanken P2013-0162, Spagnolo). The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.