Bastidas, Rafaela; Acosta, Nicolás - In: Journal of economic structures : JES; the official … 8 (2019) 16, pp. 1-29
Resource misallocation can lower the aggregate total factor productivity (TFP). We use micro-data on manufacturing … establishments from the Instituto Ecuatoriano de Estadística y Censos to quantify the differences in productivity and diagnose the … efficiency in the allocation of resources between formal and informal firms in the Ecuadorian in the manufacturing sector. We use …