We provide evidence that a weak banking sector has contributed to low productivity growth following the European … natural experiment to study the effects of reduced bank capital adequacy on productivity. Affected banks respond not only by … the resulting increase in factor misallocation accounts for 20% of the decline in productivity in Portugal in 2012. …

equilibrium model in which there is a continuum of firms subject to idiosyncratic productivity shocks. We find that a dividend tax … cut raises aggregate productivity by reducing the frictions in the reallocation of capital across firms. Our baseline …