Productivity Volatility and the Misallocation of Resources in Developing Economies

Allan Collard-Wexler, John Asker, Jan De Loecker

NBER Working Paper No. 17175
Issued in June 2011

---- Acknowledgments ----

We would like to thank Dave Backus, for introducing us to the World Bank Data, and Gian Luca Clementi, Alessandro Gavazza, Pete Klenow, Richard Rogerson, Daniel Xu, and participants in the NYU Stern Micro Lunch and the MIT IO seminar for their comments. The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

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