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Essays On Growth And Input Misallocation In China, Wenya Wang
Essays On Growth And Input Misallocation In China, Wenya Wang
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My thesis consists of three chapters that contribute to the study of input misallocation and TFP growth in China.
In Chapter 2, I compare the misallocation of intermediate goods to those of capital and labor, which have been extensively studied in the literature. To measure misallocation, I compute the dispersion of marginal products of intermediate goods across firms, and the potential output gains by eliminating this dispersion in China Industrial Enterprise Survey (CIES) data. Although the within-industry dispersion of marginal products of intermediates is smaller than that of capital and labor, gross output and value added gains from reallocating intermediate …