Productivity and resource misallocation in Latin America1)
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Keywords
distortions; firm heterogeneity; firm productivity; Latin America; misallocation costs; total factor productivity; JEL Classification: D24; O47; L25;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- D24 - Microeconomics - - Production and Organizations - - - Production; Cost; Capital; Capital, Total Factor, and Multifactor Productivity; Capacity
- O47 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Growth and Aggregate Productivity - - - Empirical Studies of Economic Growth; Aggregate Productivity; Cross-Country Output Convergence
- L25 - Industrial Organization - - Firm Objectives, Organization, and Behavior - - - Firm Performance
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