This paper presents a meta-analysis of 5308 observations of total factor productivity growth (TFPG) in China from 150 … primary studies to provide some insightful explanations to the controversies about productivity growth in China in the current … TFPGs; (4) Regional disparities of TFPG are significant and specifically the TFPG in East China is higher than that in …

We use a meta-analysis to quantify the impact of misallocation of production factors on aggregate productivity. A key … estimate in empirical studies on misal- location is the implied aggregate total factor productivity (TFP) loss due to the sub … the corresponding productivity loss depends on the country of analysis. In particular, there is a negative correlation …