Firms, misallocation, and aggregate productivity: A review

Annual Review of Economics

Volumn 6, Issue , 2014, Pages 735-770

  Hopenhayn, Hugo A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

distortions; firm heterogeneity; resource allocation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84905686192     PISSN: 19411383     EISSN: 19411391     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-economics-082912-110223     Document Type: Review

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