Productivity Dispersion, Misallocation, and Reallocation Frictions: Theory and Evidence from Policy Reforms
Productivity Dispersion, Misallocation, and Reallocation Frictions: Theory and Evidence from Policy Reforms
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生产力分散、错配和再分配摩擦:政策改革的理论和证据
DOI:
10.1057/s41294-021-00157-0
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发表时间:
2021
影响因子:
0.8
通讯作者:
Earle, John S.
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作者:
Brown, J. David;Dinlersoz, Emin;Earle, John S.
Recent research maintains that the observed productivity variation across firms reflects resource misallocation and concludes that large GDP gains may be obtained from market-liberalizing polices. Our theoretical analysis examines the impact on productivity dispersion of reallocation frictions in the form of costs of entry, operation, and restructuring, and shows that reforms reducing these frictions may raise dispersion of productivity across firms. Contrary to conventional wisdom, the model does not imply a negative relationship between aggregate productivity and productivity dispersion. Our empirical analysis focuses on episodes of liberalizing policy reforms in the US and six East European transition economies. We find that deregulation of US telecommunications equipment manufacturing is associated with increased, not reduced, productivity dispersion, and that every transition economy in our sample shows a sharp rise in dispersion after liberalization. Productivity dispersion under communist central planning is similar to that in the US, and it rises faster in countries liberalizing more quickly. We also find that lagged productivity dispersion predicts higher future productivity growth, likely because dispersion reflects experimentation by both entering and incumbent firms. The analysis suggests there is no simple relationship between the policy environment and productivity dispersion.
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影响因子:
8.2
作者:
Asker, John;Collard-Wexler, Allan;De Loecker, Jan
通讯作者:
De Loecker, Jan
DOI:
10.1596/1813-9450-8023
发表时间:
2017
期刊:
American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics
影响因子:
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作者:
Fattal Jaef;Roberto Naim
通讯作者:
Roberto Naim
DOI:
10.2139/ssrn.2937573
发表时间:
2017
期刊:
ERN: Empirical Studies Using Input-Output Tables (Topic)
影响因子:
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作者:
E. Bartelsman;Z. Wolf
通讯作者:
Z. Wolf
影响因子:
8.2
作者:
Boyan Jovanovic;G. MacDonald
通讯作者:
G. MacDonald
DOI:
10.2139/ssrn.3347179
发表时间:
2018
期刊:
ERN: Production; Cost; Capital & Total Factor Productivity; Value Theory (Topic)
影响因子:
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作者:
J. Haltiwanger;Robert B. Kulick;C. Syverson
通讯作者:
C. Syverson