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implications for the ongoing policy debate over government investment in broadband infrastructure to encourage productivity and …
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Learning by exporting refers to the mechanism whereby firms improve their performance (productivity) after entering export markets. Although this mechanism is often mentioned in policy documents, a significant share of econometric studies has not found evidence for this hypothesis. This paper...
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In this paper, we propose an extension of the productivity decomposition method developed by Olley & Pakes (1996). This extension provides an accounting for the contributions of both firm entry and exit to aggregate productivity changes. It breaks down the contribution of surviving firms into a...
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Our purpose in this paper is to examine how one might evaluate and measure the contribution of public infrastructure …, we find that increases in public infrastructure capital, ceteris paribus, reduce private sector costs. We compute that … amount of public infrastructure capital that would rationalize the cost savings incurred by the private business and …
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We examine the productivity of public infrastructure in a general equilibrium context. In our model, infrastructure … to variety. Infrastructure alters factor prices, intermediate prices and the allocation of factors across sectors. The …
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The impact of public infrastructure investment on the productive performance of firms has been an important focus of …. However, detailed evaluation of the infrastructure impact is difficult using existing studies which rely on restricted models …, nonproduction and production labor and energy) use of manufacturing firms to evaluate the contribution of infrastructure to firms …
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