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This paper develops a general theory of aggregation in inefficient economies. We provide non-parametric formulas for …
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Almost two thirds of the cross-plant dispersion in marginal revenue products of capital occurs across plants within the same firm rather than between firms. Even though firms allocate investment very differently across their plants, they do not equalize marginal revenue products across their...
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We provide a general non-parametric formula for aggregating microeconomic shocks in general equilibrium economies with distortions such as taxes, markups, frictions to resource reallocation, and nominal rigidities. We show that the macroeconomic impact of a shock can be boiled down into two...
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Economy-wide institutional deficiencies causing factor misallocation have been emphasized as essential determinants of aggregate TFP differences. This paper argues that production flexibility at the micro-level is an economic characteristic that should be given priority in TFP aggregation...
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hiring costs to analyse the link between sectoral resource allocation, low productivity growth and stagnant real wages. My … their labor allocation on aggregate growth. Subsidies to high-productivity sector production can alleviate welfare losses …I propose a two-sector endogenous growth model with heterogeneous sectoral productivity and sector-specific, nonlinear …
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allocative efficiency because firms pass-through measured productivity gains into markups. From industry-year variation, there is …
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