Doing Less, with Less: Capital Misallocation, Investment and the Productivity Slowdown in Australia
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productivity; dispersion; firm-level; BLADE;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- C23 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Single Equation Models; Single Variables - - - Models with Panel Data; Spatio-temporal Models
- C55 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Econometric Modeling - - - Large Data Sets: Modeling and Analysis
- D22 - Microeconomics - - Production and Organizations - - - Firm Behavior: Empirical Analysis
- D30 - Microeconomics - - Distribution - - - General
- E23 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Consumption, Saving, Production, Employment, and Investment - - - Production
- E24 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Consumption, Saving, Production, Employment, and Investment - - - Employment; Unemployment; Wages; Intergenerational Income Distribution; Aggregate Human Capital; Aggregate Labor Productivity
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-BEC-2023-04-10 (Business Economics)
- NEP-CFN-2023-04-10 (Corporate Finance)
- NEP-EFF-2023-04-10 (Efficiency and Productivity)
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