Katayama, Hajime; Lu, Shihua; Tybout, James R. - In: International Journal of Industrial Organization 27 (2009) 3, pp. 403-413
Applied economists often wish to measure the effects of policy changes (like trade liberalization) or managerial decisions (like R&D expenditures or exporting) on firm-level productivity patterns. But firm-level data on physical quantities of output, capital, and intermediate inputs are...