Estimating lost output from allocative inefficiency, with an application to chile and firing costs

Review of Economics and Statistics

Volumn 95, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 286-301

  Petrin, Amil ^a   Sivadasan, Jagadeesh ^b  

^a University of Minnesota and NBER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

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EID: 84886057305     PISSN: 00346535     EISSN: 15309142     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/REST_a_00238     Document Type: Article

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