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100 1 _aRestuccia, Diego.
_919319
245 1 0 _aPolicy Distortions and Aggregate Productivity with Heterogeneous Plants /
_cDiego Restuccia, Richard Rogerson.
260 _aCambridge, Mass.
_bNational Bureau of Economic Research
_c2007.
300 _a1 online resource:
_billustrations (black and white);
490 1 _aNBER working paper series
_vno. w13018
500 _aApril 2007.
520 3 _aWe formulate a version of the growth model in which production is carried out by heterogeneous plants and calibrate it to US data. In the context of this model we argue that differences in the allocation of resources across heterogeneous plants may be an important factor in accounting for cross-country differences in output per capita. In particular, we show that policies which create heterogeneity in the prices faced by individual producers can lead to sizeable decreases in output and measured TFP in the range of 30 to 50 percent. We show that these effects can result from policies that do not rely on aggregate capital accumulation or aggregate relative price differences. More generally, the model can be used to generate differences in capital accumulation, relative prices, and measured TFP.
530 _aHardcopy version available to institutional subscribers
538 _aSystem requirements: Adobe [Acrobat] Reader required for PDF files.
538 _aMode of access: World Wide Web.
588 0 _aPrint version record
690 7 _aE2 - Consumption, Saving, Production, Investment, Labor Markets, and Informal Economy
_2Journal of Economic Literature class.
690 7 _aO1 - Economic Development
_2Journal of Economic Literature class.
700 1 _aRogerson, Richard.
_919628
710 2 _aNational Bureau of Economic Research.
830 0 _aWorking Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research)
_vno. w13018.
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.nber.org/papers/w13018
856 _yAcceso en lĂ­nea al DOI
_uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.3386/w13018
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