Capital market distortions lower aggregate productive efficiency by misallocating re- sources. The existing literature infers such distortions from the dispersion of the average revenue product of capital. However, the methodology is subject to a set of identification issues: unobserved...

Investment frictions reduce, delay or protract investment expenditure that is necessary for ?rms to capture growth opportunities. Using a capital adjust- ment costs framework, this paper estimates the gap between China?s actual and frictionless aggregate output. It applies the method of...