American Economic Journal:
Macroeconomics
ISSN 1945-7707 (Print) | ISSN 1945-7715 (Online)
Misallocation, Establishment Size, and Productivity
American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics
vol. 9,
no. 3, July 2017
(pp. 267–303)
Abstract
We consider a model of heterogeneous production units with endogenous entry and productivity investment to assess the quantitative impact of policy distortions: when the productivity elasticity of distortions increases from 0.09 in the United States to 0.5 in India, aggregate output and average establishment size fall by 53 and 86 percent (37 and 0 percent in the standard factor misallocation model). Entry productivity and factor misallocation contribute equally to the reduction in output, whereas lower life-cycle productivity growth is fully offset by increased entry and reduced productivity dispersion. Establishment size differences are consistent with evidence from a new comprehensive cross-country dataset.Citation
Bento, Pedro, and Diego Restuccia. 2017. "Misallocation, Establishment Size, and Productivity." American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 9 (3): 267–303. DOI: 10.1257/mac.20150281Additional Materials
JEL Classification
- D25 Intertemporal Firm Choice, Investment, Capacity, and Financing
- E23 Macroeconomics: Production
- E24 Employment; Unemployment; Wages; Intergenerational Income Distribution; Aggregate Human Capital; Aggregate Labor Productivity
- L25 Firm Performance: Size, Diversification, and Scope
- L60 Industry Studies: Manufacturing: General
- O10 Economic Development: General
- O14 Industrialization; Manufacturing and Service Industries; Choice of Technology
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