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Capital misallocation and aggregate factor productivity

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  • Leo Kaas

    (University of Konstanz)

  • Costas Azariadis

    (Washington University in St. Louis)

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If sector productivities follow a symmetric two-state Markov process, many of our economies converge to a periodic cycle alternating between mild expansions and abrupt contractions.

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  • Leo Kaas & Costas Azariadis, 2009. "Capital misallocation and aggregate factor productivity," 2009 Meeting Papers 953, Society for Economic Dynamics.
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    • D90 - Microeconomics - - Micro-Based Behavioral Economics - - - General
    • E32 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Prices, Business Fluctuations, and Cycles - - - Business Fluctuations; Cycles
    • O47 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Growth and Aggregate Productivity - - - Empirical Studies of Economic Growth; Aggregate Productivity; Cross-Country Output Convergence

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