DP21034 Wedges: A Microeconomic Perspective on Misallocation

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This chapter takes stock of what has been learned from the recent micro-development literature about wedges --- mechanisms generating dispersion in marginal revenue products of factors across firms, which are commonly interpreted as indicators of misallocation. We present a general theoretical framework that allows us to consider several different types of wedges simultaneously. We argue that it is important to distinguish between between technological wedges, which are present even in the

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