This paper analyzes productivity levels, dispersion and growth in the Bolivian Manufacturing Sector during the Market … promote economic growth with fairness. We show that in contrast to what was expected, productivity in the manufacturing sector … decreased steadily. We compute Total Factor Productivity (TFP), for the first time, using firm-level data and in addition we …

than 7 per cent annually since 1992, the economy is mostly based on low-productivity agriculture. Manufacturing contributes …

contribute to this line of research by providing industry-specific evidence for German manufacturing industries, based on … role of digitization. Our results do not suggest an overall average increase in market power in German manufacturing …

use micro data of Slovenian manufacturing firms operating between the period 1994-2000. I estimate total factor …

quantity metrics. Consistent with manufacturing studies, we find market entrants have lower prices and higher Total Factor … Productivity (TFP) than incumbents. Increased competition from new entrants leads incumbents to reduce the price of union …. Those with higher TFP have higher survival probabilities. However, increased competition does not induce incumbents to raise …

disentangle between tfp and technology adoption, while available studies so far have considered only a notion of productivity … adoption effects) and allow for a more efficient exploitation of a given technology (tfp effects). …

This paper explores the link between exports and total factor productivity (TFP) in Brazilian manufacturing firms over … exports significantly, but with stagnant aggregate TFP growth. The authors first estimate firm-level TFP under alternative …). Finally, they test whether exporting boosts firms TFP growth (learning-by-exporting hypothesis) using matching techniques, to …

, and total factor productivity (TFP) using firm-level data for China between 1998 and 2007. We find, consistent with the … model, that the firms with the highest levels of TFP had low levels of political affiliation and/or state ownership. …

for a dynamic interaction in explaining total factor productivity (TFP). Relative to the existing literature, our model … affect TFP in own sector, the model implies that after accounting for both R&D and TFP spillovers, there is a total positive … impact of R&D on TFP in the same sector while the overall impact of R&D on TFP in other sectors and countries is negative …