Why do living standards differ so much across countries? A consensus in the development
literature is that differences in productivity are a dominant source of these differences. But …

Misallocation of labour and capital can greatly reduce aggregate productivity. In this study,
we use tax administrative data to examine the extent of resource misallocation in the South …

Labor productivity of the Finnish economy has stuck close to the level of year 2007 for over a
decade. Positive productivity development still occurs in many establishments and firms in …

We investigate the effect of misallocation induced by firm-specific distortions on aggregate
productivity and long-run TFP growth. Using a new firm-level dataset from Sri Lanka's …

In comparison to agglomeration economies, the negative externalities of agglomeration
have received less attention. Based on the punishment data of illegal loans from Chinese …

This paper evaluates the degree of resource misallocation and its effect on aggregate
productivity in the Thai manufacturing sector after the 1997 crisis. This paper uses plant …

In Japan, men's and women's labor force participation rates converged between 2010 and
2020, but gender gaps in occupational choice persisted. We quantify the output and welfare …

Factor misallocation has been emphasized as one of the main sources of differences in
aggregate TFP. This paper investigates the empirical dynamics of both capital and labor …

According to the macroeconomic allocation efficiency measure, particularly based on the
methodology of Hsieh and Klenow (2009), Korea's allocation efficiency in the manufacturing …

How efficiently are workers, investment capital, and production distributed across firms in
Canada? And how have they varied over time, across regions, and between sectors? To …