-Griliches estimation procedure will tend to overestimate exporting firm markups and underestimate their productivity. In addition, we … industries scale economies (and subsequently productivity) cannot be estimated independently of markups. We extend this basic … framework to show that, if exporting markups are smaller than those attainable in the domestic market, the Klette …

The measurement of productivity is a complex task. The OECD has recently released a comprehensive manual or guide to … the measurement of industry-level and aggregate productivity. In the fifth article, Paul Schreyer from the OECD and the … author of the OECD productivity manual provides an overview of the manual. He highlights a number of the key issues addressed …

A startling fact of firm level productivity analysis is the large and persistent differences in both labour … productivity and total factor productivity (TFP) between firms in narrowly defined sectoral classes. The competitiveness of an … industry is potentially an important factor explaining this productivity dispersion. The degree of competition has also …

A startling fact of firm level productivity analysis is the large and persistent differences in both labour … productivity and total factor productivity (TFP) between firms in narrowly defined sectoral classes. The competitiveness of an … industry is potentially an important factor explaining this productivity dispersion. The degree of competition has also …

Much of recent Trade theory focuses on heterogeneity of firms and the differential impacttrade policy might have on … firms with different levels of productivity. A common problem isthat most firm level dataset do not contain information on … output prices of firms which makesit difficult to distinguish between productivity differences and differences in market …

Much of recent Trade theory focuses on heterogeneity of firms and the differential impact trade policy might have on … firms with different levels of productivity. A common problem is that most firm level dataset do not contain information on … output prices of firms which makes it difficult to distinguish between productivity differences and differences in market …

of globalization on productivity measurement, giving the example of intellectual property, which is produced in one …This article puts forward three priority areas for future productivity research. It first identifies important data … lead to biased multifactor productivity growth estimates. It then highlights the health and education sectors as a focus …