Declining U.S. Dynamism?
NOTE: The Growth Economics Blog has moved sites. Click here to find this post at the new site. There’s a research report from Brookings that’s making it’s way around the inter-tubes. The title is...
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NOTE: The Growth Economics Blog has moved sites. Click here to find this post at the new site. Back with another set of readings for my grad class this fall. As before, a PDF and BibTeX file of the...
View ArticleShould Developing Countries Try to Create a Business Elite?
NOTE: The Growth Economics Blog has moved sites. Click here to find this post at the new site. La Porta and Shleifer released a working paper recently on the informal economy (which I believe is a...
View ArticleDavid, Hopenhayn, and Venkateswaran on Misallocation
NOTE: The Growth Economics Blog has moved sites. Click here to find this post at the new site. Next installment of the NBER growth session recap. The second paper was by Joel David (USC), Hugo...
View ArticleEconomic Dynamism and Productivity Growth
NOTE: The Growth Economics Blog has moved sites. Click here to find this post at the new site. There’s a paper out in the latest Journal of Economic Perspectives by Decker, Haltiwanger, Jarmin, and...
View ArticleMeasuring Misallocation across Firms
NOTE: The Growth Economics Blog has moved sites. Click here to find this post at the new site. One of the most active area of research in macro development (let’s not call it growth economics, I guess)...
View ArticlePerfect Competition is Bad for Growth
NOTE: The Growth Economics Blog has moved sites. Click here to find this post at the new site. You have to be careful in confusing “free markets” with “perfect competition”. By “free markets”, I think...
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