% WARNING: This file may contain UTF-8 (unicode) characters. % While non-8-bit characters are officially unsupported in BibTeX, you % can use them with the biber backend of biblatex % usepackage[backend=biber]{biblatex} @techreport{NBERw23129, title = "The Sources of Capital Misallocation", author = "David, Joel M and Venkateswaran, Venky", institution = "National Bureau of Economic Research", type = "Working Paper", series = "Working Paper Series", number = "23129", year = "2017", month = "February", doi = {10.3386/w23129}, URL = "http://www.nber.org/papers/w23129", abstract = {We develop a methodology to disentangle sources of capital ‘misallocation’, i.e. dispersion in value-added/capital. It measures the contributions of technological/informational frictions and a rich class of firm-specific factors. An application to Chinese manufacturing firms reveals that adjustment costs and uncertainty, while significant, explain only a modest fraction of the dispersion, which stems largely from other factors: a component correlated with productivity and a fixed effect. Adjustment costs are more salient for large US firms, though other factors still account for bulk of the dispersion. Technological/ markup heterogeneity explains a limited fraction in China, but a potentially large share in the US.}, }