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Forecasting Aggregate Productivity Using Information from Firm-Level Data
Bartelsman, Eric J. - 2017
This paper contributes to the productivity literature by using results from firm-level productivity studies to improve … forecasts of macro-level productivity growth. The paper employs current research methods on estimating firm-level productivity … to build times-series components that capture the joint dynamics of the firm-level productivity and size distributions …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012976846
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Forecasting Aggregate Productivity using Information from Firm-Level Data
Bartelsman, Eric J.; Wolf, Zoltan - 2009
This paper contributes to the productivity literature by using results from firm-level productivity studies to improve … forecasts of macro-level productivity growth. The paper employs current research methods on estimating firm-level productivity … to build times-series components that capture the joint dynamics of the firm-level productivity and size distributions …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325710
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Panel Data Estimates of the Production Function and Product and Labor Market Imperfections
Dobbelaere, Sabien; Mairesse, Jacques - 2009
Embedding the efficient bargaining model into the R. Hall (1988) approach for estimating price-cost margins shows that both imperfections in the product and labor markets generate a wedge between factor elasticities in the production function and their corresponding shares in revenue. This...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325978
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Product and Labor Market Imperfections and Scale Economies: Micro-Evidence on France, Japan and the Netherlands
Dobbelaere, Sabien; Kiyota, Kozo; Mairesse, Jacques - 2013
Allowing for three labor market settings (perfect competition or right-to-manage bargaining, efficient bargaining and monopsony), this paper relies on an extension of Hall's econometric framework for estimating simultaneously price-cost margins and scale economies. Using an unbalanced panel of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010326464
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The Elasticities of Complementarity and Substitution
Broer, Peter - 2004
This paper argues that the conventional definition of the elasticity of complementarity is not well suited to deal with the case of increasing returns. It proposes a slightly different formula, that uses a distance function formulation instead of a production function. The proposed definition...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325495
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Optimal Diversity in Investments with Recombinant Innovation
van den Bergh, Jeroen C. J. M.; Zeppini-Rossi, Paolo - 2014
We address the notion of dynamic, endogenous diversity and its role in theories of investment and technological innovation. We develop a formal model of an innovation arising from the combination of two existing modules with the objective to optimize the net benefits of diversity. The model...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014047180
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Mean and Bold?
Witte, Kristof De; Dijkgraaf, Elbert - 2007
The Dutch drinking water sector experienced two drastic changes over the last 10 years. Firstly, in 1997, the sector association started with a voluntary benchmarking aimed to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of the sector. Secondly, merger activity arose. This paper develops a tailored...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325538
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A K-Sample Homogeneity Test Based on the Quantification of the p-p Plot : The Harmonic Weighted Mass Index
Hinloopen, Jeroen; Wagenvoort, Rien; van Marrewijk, Charles - 2008
We propose a quantification of the p-p plot that assigns equal weight to all distances between the respective distributions: the surface between the p-p plot and the diagonal. This surface is labelled the Harmonic Weighted Mass (HWM) index. We introduce the diagonal-deviation (d-d) plot that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014213691
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Identifying All Distinct Sample P-P Plots, with an Application to the Exact Finite Sample Distribution of the L1-FCvM Test Statistic
Hinloopen, Jeroen; Wagenvoort, Rien - 2010
P-p plots contain all the information that is needed for scale-invariant comparisons. Indeed, Empirical Distribution Function (EDF) tests translate sample p-p plots into a single number. In this paper we characterize the set of all distinct p-p plots for two balanced sample of size n absent...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014191771
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The Effect of Parents' Schooling on Child's Schooling : A Nonparametric Bounds Analysis
de Haan, Monique - 2008
This paper uses a relatively new approach to investigate the effect of parents' schooling on child's schooling; a nonparametric bounds analysis based on Manski and Pepper (2000), using the most recent version of the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study. We start with making no assumptions and then add...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014047426