concentrating internal funds on investment projects in only a few of their plants in a given period and rotating funds to another …

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 …

efficiency of resource allocation is uncorrelated with income levels …Misallocation of resources across firms leads to lower aggregate productivity. In this paper, we provide new estimates … of manufacturing productivity differences across countries and establish by how much they would be reduced if such …

This paper analyzes the effects of allocative efficiency on productivity in the manufacturing sector of Korea following … Hsieh and Klenow (2009). The results of this research indicate that the overall allocative efficiency declined from 1990 to …

Republic of Korea manufacturing sector from 1982 to 2007. They find improvement in the aggregate allocative efficiency during … dispersion in revenue productivity should not be dismissed as mere artifacts of misspecification or measurement errors …

It is well established that mis-allocation of factor resources lowers productivity. In this paper, I use data from both … formal and informal firms to study distortions in input and output markets as sources of mis-allocation in the Indian … factor revenue productivity (TFPR). I also decompose the variance in TFPR and show that raw material and output distortions …

that without robot adaption, the productivity of enterprises that use intelligence robots increases by 27.1%, and the … dispersion of total factor productivity among enterprises decreases by 0.0817%. Using Bartik instruments method to deal with the … research work of this paper is of great significance to accelerate the intelligence upgrading of China's manufacturing sector …

In this paper we provide firm-level evidence on the role of resource misallocation for total factor productivity … we find that misallocation is higher in services and for capital. Our estimates suggest that if Austrian efficiency was … capital/labor productivity build up more capital/labor and that financial constraints play a significant role, especially in …