This paper studies how firms contribute to the productivity growth of an industry over their lifecycle. We present a … decomposition method that allows us to condition the components of productivity growth on the age of production units. We find … effect is tightly related to the negative initial productivity effect of entry. We also find some evidence that productivity …

This study examines how deregulation affects product market competition and thereby productivity. Productivity grows … to renounce high rents and cut costs, which increases static efficiency. However, static efficiency boosts productivity … rivals, they ensure firms a quiet life. Deregulation has therefore great potential to boost productivity growth. This study …

technological change and productivity growth takes place in an economy. Quite normally, some 30-50% of an industrys productivity … growth is due to this particular mechanism. Disruptions to this mechanism would have considerable effects on productivity …

-industry restructuring in productivity growth, few studies have gone beyond the framework of the representative firm in examining convergence … or divergence in regional productivity. We use unique longitudinal plant-level data over a long period of time and apply … a useful variant of productivity decomposition methods to study differences in productivity-enhancing restructuring …

cover essentially all firms in the Finnish business sector, we first document that labor productivity dispersion is very … market equilibrium and whether innovation subsidies can improve industry productivity by mitigating such a tax distortion. …

productivity. An important issue, therefore, is how to measure allocative efficiency. We compare popular indicators of allocative … productivity and to the Olley-Pakes (OP) covariance component, which is currently the most popular measure of allocative efficiency …