Indian manufacturing plants, we show that production and sourcing decisions appear systematically distorted in states with … to be more vertically integrated. To quantify the impact of these distortions on aggregate productivity, we construct a … that enforcement frictions lower aggregate productivity to an extent that is relevant on the macro scale …

productivity across sectors exhibits weak correlation. While previous work examined production complementarity, our analysis … explores complementarity in information acquisition. Because information about future productivity has a high fixed cost of … production and a low marginal cost of replication, sectors can share the cost to forecast their sector-specific productivity …

both developed and developing countries. In both country groups, comparative advantage has become weaker: productivity grew …

across buyers of manufactured intermediate goods. Over half of firm-to-firm manufacturing sales are accounted for by products … overall variation in price gaps. We use a workhorse model of production networks to quantify the productivity gains from … by buyer-product specific markups. The increase in aggregate productivity (normalized by the sales share of treated multi …