) definition of aggregate productivity growth, which aggregates plant-level changes to changes in aggregate final demand in the … technologies, one for each 4-digit SIC code. On average we find positive aggregate productivity growth of 2.2% in this sector … for both the theoretical literature on growth and alternative indexes of aggregate productivity growth based only on …

Effective dispute resolution is important for reducing private and social costs. We study how resolution responds to … social costs …

. Farmers responded to the shrinking transportation wedge and rising revenue productivity by rapidly expanding the area under …

-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 …

these facts in light of several prominent theories of development such as entry costs and misallocation. We then quantify … the sectoral and aggregate impact of entry costs and misallocation in an otherwise standard two-sector model with … endogenous firm entry, firm-level productivity, and sectoral employment shares. We find that observed measures of misallocation …

at the micro level typically reduces total factor productivity at the macro level. Quantifying these effects is leading …