This paper examines the determinants of productivity in Japanese manufacturing industries, looking particularly at the … impact of product market competition on productivity. Using a newly available panel data on around ten thousand firms in …-cost margin, enhances productivity growth, controlling for a broad range of industrial and firm-specific characteristics. Moreover …

This paper studies the effects of trade liberalization on the evolution of firm productivity. The productivity of each … nominal tariffs on firms' productivity levels is identified. After controlling for the endogeneity of nominal tariffs, the … estimated coefficient for tariffs in the productivity equation turns out to be negative. Second, a measure of tariffs on inputs …

productivity, using the annual plant-level panel data on Korean manufacturing sector during the period of 1990 to 1998. The two key … questions examined are whether exporting improves productivity (learning) and/or whether more productive plants export (self …-sectional correlation between exporting and total factor productivity is accounted for by both selection and learning effects. These results …

frontier and that the frontier will move out faster. In particular, plants that export will achieve a higher productivity level … status on productivity for a panel of manufacturing plants in nine African countries. The results indicate that exporters in … increase their productivity advantage after entry into the export market. While the first finding can be explained by selection …

, including the distribution of output and productivity across firms and the magnitude of entry and exit flows. It has been argued … market structure, more producer turnover, smaller within-industry productivity dispersion across producers, a smaller … percentage of plants operating at low productivity levels, and smaller productivity differentials between surviving and failing …

Racial social isolation within and across workplaces may reduce firm productivity. We provide descriptive evidence that … African-Americans feel socially isolated from Whites. To test whether isolation affects productivity, we estimate models of … Total Factor Productivity for manufacturing firms allowing returns to local area concentrations of economic activity and …

inefficient firms to exit. As a result, low cost entry and exit may help improve aggregate productivity by allowing for the rapid … the Taiwanese Census of Manufactures for 1981, 1986, and 1991, we measure differences in total factor productivity among … entering, exiting, and continuing firms, and quantify the contribution of firm turnover to industry productivity improvements …

Aggregate productivity growth in the U.S. has slowed down since the 2000s. We quantify the importance of differential … productivity growth across occupations and across industries, and the rise of computers since the 1980s, for the productivity … productivity growth, reducing their contributions toward aggregate productivity growth, resulting in its slowdown. We find that …

entry rates and increases in plant productivity. These results are not present for districts located on another major …

Since the 1990s, China's real estate market has experienced a dramatic and long-lasting boom across China. This boom … into a gigantic housing bubble, which might eventually burst and damage China's financial system and economy. Motivated by … this concern, this paper reviews the historical development of China's real estate market, describes the real estate boom …