relationship to both (i) institutional constraints, and (ii) productivity …

employment and capital growth of local firms with higher productivity and that this effect is concentrated among young firms … important gains in aggregate industry productivity and that changes in the allocation of labor play a central role in driving …

examine this in the context of China and India - two large, rapidly-growing developing economies. Using theory, we develop a … in China and 15 percentage points in India. This impact has fallen over time in both countries as firm concentration in …

Most conventional accounts of India's recent economic performance associate the pick-up in economic growth with the …

import-competing firms, that this heightened competitive pressure induces productivity gains among these same firms, and that …

US, China, and India reveals substantial losses in productivity and output due to the informational friction. Our … estimates for these losses range from 7-10% for productivity and 10-14% for output in China and India, and are smaller, though …We propose a theory linking imperfect information to resource misallocation and hence to aggregate productivity and …

using enterprise data. The GQ project upgraded the quality and width of 5,846 km of roads in India. We use a difference … entry rates and increases in plant productivity. These results are not present for districts located on another major …

aggregate manufacturing productivity on the order of 25% in India and Mexico relative to the U.S … intermediate to India and the U.S. in these respects: the average 40 year old Mexican plant employs twice as many workers as an …

) on total factor productivity (TFP) and labor productivity in India. Identification of the effect of EPL follows from a …