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  Adoption 10/11/2019 09:35:PM
  Benchmark 10/11/2019 09:36:PM
  Benchmark-No-Transitory 10/11/2019 09:36:PM
  Efficient 10/11/2019 09:35:PM
  Exit 10/11/2019 09:35:PM
  Experiments-on-Age-Channel 10/11/2019 09:36:PM
  Experiments-with-phi 10/11/2019 09:35:PM
  Fixed-vs-Sunk-Costs 10/11/2019 09:35:PM
  Heterogeneity-Initial-Wealth 10/11/2019 09:36:PM
  Korea-Crisis 10/11/2019 09:36:PM

Project Description

Summary:  View help for Summary We use producer-level data to evaluate the role of financial frictions in determining total factor productivity (TFP). We study a model of establishment dynamics in which financial frictions reduce TFP through two channels. First, finance frictions distort entry and technology adoption decisions. Second, finance frictions generate dispersion in the returns to capital across existing producers and thus productivity losses from misallocation. Parameterizations of our model consistent with the data imply fairly small losses from misallocation, but potentially sizable losses from inefficiently low levels of entry and technology adoption.

Scope of Project

JEL Classification:  View help for JEL Classification
      E32 Business Fluctuations; Cycles
      E44 Financial Markets and the Macroeconomy
      F41 Open Economy Macroeconomics
      G32 Financing Policy; Financial Risk and Risk Management; Capital and Ownership Structure; Value of Firms; Goodwill
      L60 Industry Studies: Manufacturing: General
      O33 Technological Change: Choices and Consequences; Diffusion Processes
      O47 Empirical Studies of Economic Growth; Aggregate Productivity; Cross-Country Output Convergence


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