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How costly is the misallocation of production that we might expect to result from distortions such as market power, incomplete contracts, taxes, regulations, or corruption? This paper develops new tools for the study of misallocation that place minimal assumptions on firms’ underlying...
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productivity in the rest of the economy. To separate exogenous gains in ICT from other technological progress, we use the relative …
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We study the impact of techies—engineers and other technically trained workers—on firm-level productivity. We first …-neutral productivity in both manufacturing and non-manufacturing industries. We find that techies raise firm-level productivity, and this … of techies on productivity operates mostly through ICT and other techies, not R&D workers. Engineers have a greater …
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Using a unique plant-level dataset we examine total factor productivity (TFP) growth and its components, related to …
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Asymmetric climate policies are expected to distort the level-playing field regarding international trade, singularly to the detriment of small open economies. The paper develops a flexible method that provides essential input regarding the design of offsetting measures. It builds on...
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-specific emission intensity decreases strongly with increasing firm productivity. …
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evidence on the direct effect of ethnic divisions on productivity. In team production at a plant in Kenya, an upstream worker …
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efficient allocation achieves 11% higher aggregate productivity and 15% higher output. …
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How costly is the misallocation of production that we might expect to result from distortions such as market power, incomplete contracts, taxes, regulations, or corruption? This paper develops new tools for the study of misallocation that place minimal assumptions on firms' underlying...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014377459
efficient allocation achieves 11% higher aggregate productivity and 15% higher output …
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