hydroelectric power availability. We estimate that India's average reported level of shortages reduces the average plant's revenues … and producer surplus by five to ten percent, but average productivity losses are significantly smaller because most inputs …

We estimate the rate of total factor productivity growth in Indian manufacturing industry for the period 1973-1992, and … it ignores the additional capital formation made possible by an increase in productivity and therefore understates … productivity's true importance. Our estimates suggest that the understatement may be quite large, and that one might better ask if …

's aggregate productivity growth. In contrast, 45 percent of the growth in India in the second sub-period came in services …We compare the recent economic performances of China and India using a simple growth accounting framework that produces … estimates of the contribution of labor, capital, education, and total factor productivity for the three sectors of agriculture …

This paper empirically examines India's economic growth experience during 1960-2004, focusing on the post 1973 … acceleration. Careful attention is paid to data quality. The analysis focuses on two unusual dimensions of India's experience … growth accounting analysis disaggregates by major sector, and highlights implications for aggregate productivity growth of …

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

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 …

-level panel data to assess the effect of distortions in land rental markets on agricultural productivity. We provide empirical … rentals have substantial positive effects on agricultural productivity: an efficient reallocation of land increases … agricultural productivity by 38 percent on average and by more than 50 percent in states with highly distorted rental markets. Both …

are frequent, often large, weakly correlated across teams, and which substantially reduce team productivity. Together …

The ratio of revenue to inputs differs greatly across plants within countries such as the U.S. and India. Such gaps may … reflect misallocation which hinders aggregate productivity. But differences in measured average products need not reflect …

Which managerial skills, traits, and practices matter most for productivity? How does the observability of these …, like attention, autonomy, and control, are important for learning-by-doing as well as for overall productivity, but are not …