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Showing 1 to 20 of 60 for “"Misallocation"”.
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Learning from Financial Markets and Misallocation
… learning from financial markets affect resource misallocation. I develop a dynamic model that features financial markets guiding managers in large investment decisions – mergers and acquisitions. Due to information frictions, mis-valuation of own firms and the potential gain from mergers and …
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Misallocation and Productivity: Micro Evidence from Bangladesh
… and factors can be a source for resource misallocation resulting in lower total factor productivity and aggregate output. Distortions create heterogeneity in production units: cause before-tax marginal revenue products to be higher in production units that face disincentives, and to be …
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Essays on financial frictions, misallocation and development dynamics
… of three chapters on financial friction, misallocation and development dynamics. The first chapter considers how financial frictions and mobility distortions generate the persistence of post-reform development dynamics. I build a general equilibrium model and calibrate it to China. The …
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Essays in Industrial Policy, Misallocation and Production Networks
… three chapters studying industrial policy, misallocation and macroeconomic propagation in developing countries. The first chapter studies the impact of placebased industrial policies on equilibrium selection with Indian industrial parks as the empirical context. The second and third chapters …
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Internal Capital Market and Capital Misallocation: Evidence from Corporate Spinoffs
… investigates the importance of reduced capital misallocation in explaining the gains in corporate spinoffs. The capital misallocation hypothesis asserts that the internal capital market of a diversified firm fails to meet the needs of the relatively low growth divisions for less investment and …
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Productivity, Misallocation and Welfare in Services and Industry in Colombia, 2007-2019
Este trabajo estudia el crecimiento de la productividad agregada (APG, por sus siglas en ingles) en los sectores de Servicios e Industria en Colombia de 2007 a 2019 aplicando la metodología de Petrin y Levinsohn (2012); en ella, el APG se descompone en dos efectos que lo explican: reasignación de …
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Abnormal cortical activity leads to misallocation of GABAergic interneurons in the mouse neonatal brain.
Aivojen kehityksen aikana GABAergiset hermosolut, joita kutsutaan myös interneuroneiksi, kulkeutuvat tangentiaalisesti aivokuoren eli korteksin ulkopuolelta subpalliumista aivokuorelle eli palliumiin. Aivokuorelle hajaantumisen jälkeen, interneuronit aloittavat radiaalisen migraation kohti …
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Growth, Productivity, Labour Misallocation, and the Paradox of Apartheid in 20th Century South Africa
… These costs manifested primarily as a severe misallocation of labour, which depressed aggregate productivity and constrained the nation’s long-run development potential. The argument is developed through a tripartite empirical investigation that dissects this paradox at the sectoral, …
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Market frictions, allocative efficiency and aggregate productivity in the manufacturing sector: evidence from Zimbabwe
… allocation of available resources. Reducing the misallocation of resources is, therefore, seen as one of the channels through which substantial increases in aggregate productivity and incomes of emerging economies can be achieved. This thesis analyses how market distortions contribute to the …
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Essays in Macroeconomics and Finance
… for mitigating credit constraint-induced capital misallocation, yet this channel has been widely overlooked in the current macro-finance literature. This chapter demonstrates and quantifies this novel channel through a dynamic general equilibrium model, which features heterogeneous firms, …
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Essays on Building Growth From Ideas
… and economic growth with an emphasis on the misallocation of ideas and talent. The first chapter focuses on the allocation of the innovations themselves, considering the optimal allocation of ideas across firms, and how it can be achieved via a market for ideas. This is done by first creating …
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Optimal Stabilization Policy in a Fixprice-Flexprice Model
… of output. As a result, the potential for misallocation in these studies is severely restricted. Once the importance of supply and demand in price determination is recognized, shortages can easily be induced by the artificial low prices of controls. If in addition, speculations are an …
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Essays on the macroeconomics of economic development
Chapter 1 contains a theory of misallocation. In contrast to a recent literature where misallocation stems from imperfect input markets, I study an economy with non-competitive output markets. This change of focus has two implications. In the cross-section of firms, static misallocation, i.e. the …
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Sources of productivity growth in Vietnam: Three essays
… the formal sector. Chapter Four examines capital misallocation of manufacturing firms in Vietnam during the period 2008 to 2017. The paper adopts a general equilibrium model to disentangle the roles of the three sources of capital misallocation: adjustment costs, uncertainty and policy …
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Sources of productivity growth in Vietnam: Three essays
… the formal sector. Chapter Four examines capital misallocation of manufacturing firms in Vietnam during the period 2008 to 2017. The paper adopts a general equilibrium model to disentangle the roles of the three sources of capital misallocation: adjustment costs, uncertainty and policy …
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Three Essays in Economic Growth
… a possible explanation for the existence of misallocation of resources and examines the long-run consequences. In the model, inefficiencies arise as a result of lobbying by firms to establish or prevent barriers to the competitive allocation of factors of production (labor). First, I show …
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Essays in Islamic Banking, Institutional Quality, and Financial Development Outcomes
… and medium-sized enterprises (SME), and capital misallocation. Building on ideas from Islamic finance theory, institutional economics and political economy, the thesis comprises three separate but connected empirical essays. These essays rely on large-n cross-country datasets and instrumental …
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The nature of boredom
… in a series of experiments. It was shown that misallocation of mental resource can be reliably measured, that it is individually variable, and that it does indeed predict behaviours, notably work quality and absence, that are considered boredom sensitive. Misallocation of mental resource is …
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Small Stores, Big Obstacles: Understanding Constraints and Opportunities for Micro-retail Firms
… estimate firm closure dynamics and implements a misallocation framework to quantify distortions in capital and labor usage. The results reveal that misallocation—particularly of capital—is pervasive and systematically linked to institutional weaknesses and credit access constraints. In response …
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Essays on Financial and Labor Markets with Frictions
… I: Unemployment and Capital Misallocation. The recent recession was associated not only with a marked disruption in the credit market, but also a sharp deterioration in labor market conditions, as evidenced by high unemployment rates and an outward shift in the Beveridge …
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