Misallocation and Manufacturing TFP in China and India

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Das (Wasted) Kapital (2007, neutral): “Using labor compensation in the national income statistics, Hsieh and Klenow (2006) estimated the capital share in China in the neighborhood of 0.6.”
Optimal Spatial Policies, Geography, and Sorting* (2018, positive): “6 These models are the basis of a growing body of research, summarized by Redding and Turner (2015) and Redding and Rossi-Hansberg (2017), that studies the counterfactual implications of particular shocks to economic fundamentals or trade costs in spatial settings.”
Really Uncertain Business Cycles (2012, positive): “Following Khan and Thomas (2008) and Bachmann, Caballero and Engel (2013) we assume that = 1.”
Dynamic Selection: An Idea Flows Theory of Entry, Trade and Growth (2016, background): “First, cross-firm resource reallocation from less to more productive firms (Melitz 2003; Hsieh and Klenow 2009).”
Factor market distortion correction, resource reallocation and potential productivity gains: An empirical study on China's heavy industry sector (2018, background): “Hsieh and Klenow (2009) examined the aggregate TFP loss from misallocation of inputs across firms in China from 1998 to 2005 and found that the manufacturing industry in this developing country can potentially improve its TFP by 30%–50% when capital and labour are hypothetically reallocated to…”