to shocks and has major implications for several performance measures, such as productivity and markups. This paper …

-up -, prices in excess to costs (PCM), among of which stand out import penetration and the export orientation of sectors. In … show relevant statistical significance of explanatory variables in different estimation methods (OLS, Fixed and Random …

This paper investigates the evolution of aggregate productivity and markups among French manufacturing firms between … 1994 and 2016, by focusing on the role of reallocation with respect to both aggregate measures. Firm-level productivity and … markups are estimated based on a gross output translog production function using popular estimation methods. I find an …

This paper analyses the effects of the 1990 Brazilian trade liberalization on the total factor productivity, market … 1986/94 indicates very large total factor productivity gains in the period to 1994, which were accompanied by large falls …

Production functions provide a mapping from the firms' input quantity and productivity to output quantity. This mapping … estimation. Even if inputs and outputs are observed in quantities, unobserved quality variation might bias production function … the estimation procedure and provide an application to the European car industry. …

In this paper we estimate the rate of total factor productivity (TFP) growth in 80 sectors of Brazilian manufacturing … industry and use production functions to decompose TFP growth into technological progress and changes in efficiency. We find … that growth of TFP was caused, in most sectors, by technological progress (advances in the frontier production function …