Misallocation and Productivity: The Case of Vietnamese Manufacturing

This paper attempts to measure the effect of resource misallocation on aggregate manufacturing total factor productivity, focusing on Vietnamese manufacturing firms during the period 2000–2009. One of the major findings of this paper is that there would have been substantial improvement in aggregate...

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Autores principales:	Doan Thi Thanh Ha, Kozo Kiyota, Kenta Yamanouchi
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Publicado:	World Scientific Publishing 2016
Materias:	misallocation total factor productivity Viet Nam Social sciences and state - Asia (Asian studies only) H53
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:796387c5cfdb4778ae49600352f4e3052021-12-02T12:20:35ZMisallocation and Productivity: The Case of Vietnamese Manufacturing0116-11051996-724110.1162/ADEV_a_00074https://doaj.org/article/796387c5cfdb4778ae49600352f4e3052016-09-01T00:00:00Zhttps://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/pdf/10.1162/ADEV_a_00074https://doaj.org/toc/0116-1105https://doaj.org/toc/1996-7241This paper attempts to measure the effect of resource misallocation on aggregate manufacturing total factor productivity, focusing on Vietnamese manufacturing firms during the period 2000–2009. One of the major findings of this paper is that there would have been substantial improvement in aggregate total factor productivity in Viet Nam in the absence of distortions. The results imply that potential productivity gains from removing distortions in Vietnamese manufacturing are large. We also find that smaller firms tend to face advantageous distortions, while larger firms tend to face disadvantageous ones. Moreover, the efficient size distribution is more dispersed than the actual size distribution. These results suggest that Viet Nam's policies may constrain its largest and most efficient producers, and coddle its smallest and least efficient ones.Doan Thi Thanh HaKozo KiyotaKenta YamanouchiWorld Scientific Publishingarticlemisallocationtotal factor productivityViet NamSocial sciences and state - Asia (Asian studies only)H53ENAsian Development Review, Vol 33, Iss 2, Pp 94-118 (2016)
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description	This paper attempts to measure the effect of resource misallocation on aggregate manufacturing total factor productivity, focusing on Vietnamese manufacturing firms during the period 2000–2009. One of the major findings of this paper is that there would have been substantial improvement in aggregate total factor productivity in Viet Nam in the absence of distortions. The results imply that potential productivity gains from removing distortions in Vietnamese manufacturing are large. We also find that smaller firms tend to face advantageous distortions, while larger firms tend to face disadvantageous ones. Moreover, the efficient size distribution is more dispersed than the actual size distribution. These results suggest that Viet Nam's policies may constrain its largest and most efficient producers, and coddle its smallest and least efficient ones.
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title	Misallocation and Productivity: The Case of Vietnamese Manufacturing
title_short	Misallocation and Productivity: The Case of Vietnamese Manufacturing
title_full	Misallocation and Productivity: The Case of Vietnamese Manufacturing
title_fullStr	Misallocation and Productivity: The Case of Vietnamese Manufacturing
title_full_unstemmed	Misallocation and Productivity: The Case of Vietnamese Manufacturing
title_sort	misallocation and productivity: the case of vietnamese manufacturing
publisher	World Scientific Publishing
publishDate	2016
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Misallocation and Productivity: The Case of Vietnamese Manufacturing

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