Essays on firm productivity and macro development
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- My dissertation centers around the following questions: why is manufacturing productivity in India lower than in the U.S. and how large are the potential gains from Indian economic reforms? I focus in particular on the effects of frictions which distort firm behavior, and on the importance of linkages between firms and sectors through intermediate inputs. The first chapter studies how easily plants are able to substitute between intermediate inputs sourced from different sectors of the economy. We argue that this is an important determinant of whether economic development policies should target specific sectors of the economy or follow a 'big push' approach of advancing all sectors together. The second chapter studies the importance of misallocation of inputs across manufacturing plants in India and the U.S. We propose a way to estimate the gaps in true marginal products across plants even in the presence of measurement error in survey data. The third chapter studies the importance of the Indian distribution sector as a constraint to the growth of Indian manufacturing plants. We document that larger plants spend a larger share of their sales on distribution, and investigate how productivity improvements in distribution services would impact the manufacturing sector.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
|---|---|
| Form | electronic resource; remote; computer; online resource |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Place | California |
| Place | [Stanford, California] |
| Publisher | [Stanford University] |
| Copyright date | 2018; ©2018 |
| Publication date | 2018; 2018 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Author | Ruane, Cian |
|---|---|
| Degree supervisor | Klenow, Peter J |
| Thesis advisor | Klenow, Peter J |
| Thesis advisor | Bloom, Nick, 1973- |
| Thesis advisor | Jones, Charles I. (Charles Irving) |
| Degree committee member | Bloom, Nick, 1973- |
| Degree committee member | Jones, Charles I. (Charles Irving) |
| Associated with | Stanford University, Department of Economics. |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
|---|---|
| Genre | Text |
Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Cian Ruane. |
|---|---|
| Note | Submitted to the Department of Economics. |
| Thesis | Thesis Ph.D. Stanford University 2018. |
| Location | electronic resource |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2018 by Cian Edward Joseph Ruane
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC).
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