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Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Essays on Finance and Resource Allocation./
Author:	Lenzu, Simone.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2018,
Description:	307 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 79-11(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International79-11A(E).
Subject:	Economics. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=10791229
ISBN:	9780438084049

Essays on Finance and Resource Allocation.
Lenzu, Simone.

Essays on Finance and Resource Allocation. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2018 - 307 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 79-11(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of Chicago, 2018.

In this dissertation, I combine two papers that study the extent and implications of resource misallocation across firms. In the first chapter, written with Francesco Manaresi, we rely on first principles of economic theory to measure capital and labor misallocation at the firm level. Using a novel micro-database on firm-specific borrowing costs and wages, we demonstrate that distortions in firms' employment and investment policies can be empirically measured using firm-level gaps between marginal revenue products and user costs (MRP-cost gaps). We estimate MRP-cost gaps for 4 million firm-year observations in Italy between 1997 and 2013, showing that the variation in these measures is closely related to the extent of credit market frictions and to the degree of labor market rigidities individual firms face. Using the estimated MRP-cost gaps, we propose a reallocation algorithm that helps us assess the scope of capital and labor misallocation in Italy, and its impact on aggregate output and total factor productivity (TFP). We calculate that holding constant the aggregate capital and labor endowments in the economy, the Italian corporate sector could produce between 3% to 4% more output by reallocating resources from over-endowed producers to higher-value users. The output losses from misallocation are larger during episodes of macro-financial instability, in non-manufacturing industries, and in geographical regions with less developed socio-economic institutions.

ISBN: 9780438084049Subjects--Topical Terms:

517137
Economics.

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