Misallocation and manufacturing TFP in Ecuador: formal, semi-formal and informal firms

Resource misallocation can lower the aggregate total factor productivity (TFP). We use micro-data on manufacturing establishments from the Instituto Ecuatoriano de Estadística y Censos to quantify the differences in productivity and diagnose the efficiency in the allocation of resources between for...

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Main Authors: Acosta, N. (Author), Bastidas, R. (Author)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SpringerOpen 2019
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