This paper explores the extent of factor misallocation in Vietnam’s cropping sector and how it is related to land … mechanism to improve agricultural factors’ allocation, however temporary land transfers only improve efficiency when they happen …

Measures of institutional quality are strong predictors of cross-country differences in income and productivity. The … efficient allocation of production factors across firms. In this study, we measure the effect of bureaucracy, labor regulations …, family management and financial frictions on input misallocation across firms using a unique dataset that combines firm …

an 8.03% increase in real GDP per capita. While misallocation in agriculture has been studied extensively, the paper …This paper evaluates the effects of restricted land use rights on aggregate productivity using micro-level data within … a quantitative model. In particular, I exploit the Rice Land Designation Policy in Vietnam, which forces farmers to …

This paper analyzes the effects of allocative efficiency on productivity in the manufacturing sector of Korea following …-industry reallocation, we confirm that intensified misallocation generally results from intra-industry allocative inefficiency. The … potential loss from instances of worsening misallocation is estimated to be approximately 0.6% points for each year, which is …

theoretically and quantitatively, the consequences of capital and technique misallocation across firms for the TFP and the interplay …, due to the amplification effect of production flexibility, technique misallocation generates more TFP losses than capital … misallocation. Our quantitative results suggest that the relative importance of technique misallocation on TFP is substantial for a …

the micro forces that matter for aggregate productivity growth focusing on six issues: costs to reallocating labour and … capital, the influence of firm ownership and political connections, informality, the allocation of talent across the economy … for macro productivity and addressing them requires a wide combination of policies. …