-liberalization quota allocation is not based on firm productivity. Removing this misallocation accounts for a substantial share of the … overall productivity gains associated with the quota removal. …

It has been widely observed that China is under-urbanized. The central government has tried to use various policies to … promote urbanization. In this paper, we evaluate one of these policies – count-to-city upgrading. Under China’s hierarchical … governance structure, a city status can only be determined and awarded by the central government. In the 1980s and 1990s, China …

,000 large and medium industrial firms operating in China during 1995. The results show that government decentralization …This study offers empirical evidence about how the structure of government and private ownership affects productivity … in Chinese firms. It uses the microdata of China’s most recent decennial industrial census, covering all of the 23 …

productivity (TFP). In this article, we summarize a recent literature - and the articles in this special issue on misallocation and … productivity - that focus on the reallocation of factors across heterogeneous production units as an important source of measured …

from trade are large if the economy is characterized by (i) extensive misallocation, i.e., large inefficiencies associated …

addressing both measurement and specification issues. In light of recent advances in the fields of productivity and misallocation … the potential extent of intra-industry misallocation in France versus the United States. In contrast to what has been … found for developing countries, such as China, India and some countries in Latin America, we do not find any sizeable …

A central theme of international trade research has been the impact of trade liberalization on productivity. Early … this adjustment enhances productivity. A traditional comparative advantage or monopolistic competition model examines … framework expand the debate to include organizational adjustment across firms. The productivity improvement in the heterogeneous …

from trade are large if the economy is characterized by (i) extensive misallocation,i.e., large ineciencies associated with …

productivity investment. The model connects small operational scales to the prevalence in poor countries of correlated distortions … (the elasticity between wedges and establishment productivity). The model also rationalizes the finding in poor countries … of low establishment-level productivity and low aggregate productivity investment. A calibrated version of the model …