Africa. Using establishment-level data from Ethiopia, this paper finds that the incidence of high-growth firms stands at an … Ethiopia will repeat a high-growth event in the subsequent three-year period. This likelihood is not greater than that of … tight link between exemplary performance and initial plant productivity, which is robust to many controls, including plant …

vulnerability to poverty using the example of drought hazard impacts on the welfare of rural households in Ethiopia. The aim is to …

-run manufacturing total factor productivity growth in an emerging market context. It explores a large firm-level panel dataset for Chile …-cut. Locations with greater concentration of a particular sector did not experience faster growth in total factor productivity during … this period. Rather, local sector diversity was associated with higher long-run growth in total factor productivity …

-distributed firm productivity and fixed costs of exporting, predicts that, conditional on the fixed costs of exporting, all variation … lognormal distribution of firm productivity allows the Melitz model to successfully match the role of the intensive margin … methods and the EDD, a generalized Melitz model with a joint lognormal distribution for firm productivity, fixed costs and …

: current and future total factor productivity and the capital stock per capita. These variables suffice to calculate welfare … production technology and the degree of market competition. It applies to open economies as well, if total factor productivity is … factor productivity be constructed with prices and quantities as perceived by consumers, not firms. Thus, factor shares need …

A considerable literature has focused on the determinants of total factor productivity (TFP), prompted by the empirical … representative consumer is summarized by current and anticipated future Solow productivity residuals. The equivalence holds for any … parametrically. This result justifies total factor productivity as the right summary measure of welfare, even in situations where it …