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Essays In Development Macroeconomics, Miguel Orozco Vazquez
Essays In Development Macroeconomics, Miguel Orozco Vazquez
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This dissertation consists of three chapters that cover topics on development macroeconomics.
Chapter 1 - Misallocation of Resources and Total Factor Productivity: Evidence from Mexico. This paper aims to measure the gross output loss due to misallocation of resources in the manufacturing and service sectors in Mexico during 2008-2018 and identify the inputs of production related to it. To do so, I use Mexican Economic Censuses and an extension of Hsieh and Klenow (2009). I also include resource misallocation computations using data processed with a Bayesian model for editing and imputing data to correct for measurement error (MEC data), which …