Spatial misallocation and economic development

• Main Author: Li, Xiaolu
• Other Authors: Tang Yang
• Format: Theses and Dissertations
• Language: English
• Published: 2017
• Subjects: DRNTU::Social sciences::Economic theory
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/70713
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

This thesis contains three chapters with a focus on how frictions at institutional or firm-level affect the resource allocation, market performance and welfare outcome. I quantitatively examine the aggregate implications and distributional impacts of those frictions both at the aggregate and at t...