in the effect and size of productivity shocks explain most of the gap in misallocation between manufacturing and services …Recent empirical studies document that the level of resource misallocation in the service sector is significantly … estimates for Portugal (2008) show that closing this gap, by reducing misallocation in the service sector to manufacturing …

Following Hsieh and Klenow (2009) this paper studies productivity dispersion in Colombian industrial establishments …-level distortions would increase manufacturing productivity in Colombia and compare it with the United States. We find that such a … reallocation would increase manufacturing Total Factor Productivity (TFP) in Colombia around 15% more than in the United States in …

productivity growth. The sectoral setting further allows us to identify the differential impacts of intangible capital across …

entry rates and increases in plant productivity. These results are not present for districts located on another major …

We use plant output and input prices to decompose the profit margin into four parts: productivity, demand shocks, mark … the impact of productivity, and other market fundamentals, on plant exit. A dynamic simulation that compares the … distribution of productivity with and without the trade reform shows that improvements in market selection from trade reform help …

We use plant output and input prices to decompose the profit margin into four parts: productivity, demand shocks, mark … the impact of productivity, and other market fundamentals, on plant exit. A dynamic simulation that compares the … distribution of productivity with and without the trade reform shows that improvements in market selection from trade reform help …

zombie firms causes the problem of resources misallocation, which as a result, adversely affects the average productivity at … shares in skill intensive sectors, because as subsidized firms experience improvement in productivity, they capture more …

We examine the link between trade liberalization and aggregate productivity, with a focus on improved market selection … closely on productivity. Using a dynamic simulation, we find that enhanced selection increases aggregate productivity … substantially. Trade liberalization also increases productivity of incumbent plants and improves the allocation of activity. We find …

a critical role in explaining regional disparities in productivity. In fact, we show that over 50% of the East …-West productivity gap is associated with a less efficient labor allocation in former East Germany. Yet, we also demonstrate that the … suggest that regional productivity differences could be substantially narrowed by a more efficient labor allocation among …