degree of competition in a market with the share of nonprofits: the availability of economic profits under for-profit status …

) definition of aggregate productivity growth, which aggregates plant-level changes to changes in aggregate final demand in the … presence of imperfect competition and other distortions/frictions. We decompose these contributions into plant-level resource … reallocations and plant-level technical efficiency changes while allowing in the estimation for 459 different production …

We study how innovation and technology diffusion interact to endogenously determine the shape of the productivity …

empirical finding.Three elaborations to the basic production frontier framework are developed and used to interpret the accident-productivity …

's endowment of skilled and unskilled labor, so that the model is one of appropriate technology. The estimation allows for country …

This paper aims to examine the productivity change of the Japanese economy using the data pertaining to the 47 … prefectures during the period 1981-2000. The decomposition analysis of the Hicks-Moorsteen-Bjurek productivity index is conducted … to explore the sources of the productivity change. In summary, technical change and efficiency change are two of the most …

We study how increased import competition affects the evolution of firm-product technical efficiencies in the small … get from their ”core” good and firms respond to competition by focusing more on their core products. Instrumenting import … competition increases tenfold when one moves from OLS to IV. We close by testing the SP approximation to MPP and reject in eight …