Changes in productivity are usually associated With technology At the firm level, this is a natural way to think about … productivity. However, in aggregate analysis, measures of productivity can change even when technology does not The measures change … affect farm-sector productivity The productivity of the farm sector is partly a function of structure …

This paper is about the relation between output and productivity measures for individual production units and those for …

Aggregation of productivity indices is known to be consistent under very restrictive conditions only. This paper … quantifies the aggregation inconsistency. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media, Inc. 2005 …

It is an established fact that firms, even within narrowly defined industries, differ with respect to productivity. In … this paper we analyse how observed heterogeneity in productivity is affected by endogenous producer behaviour, and to what … extent shifts in firm specific productivity parameters will affect aggregate industry productivity. We find that endogenous …

This paper studies how productivity shifts at the level of the firm are transmitted to aggregate industry productivity … in a model of heterogeneous firms. We analyse both uniform productivity shifts, and catching up by reducing the … productivity differentials between firms. The two kinds of shifts affect aggregate productivity in different ways and through …

Measured total factor productivity often declines sharply during financial crises. In 1982, the Chilean manufacturing … derive the appropriate measure of aggregate productivity to which it should be compared. Across specifications, within …

increase in aggregate total factor productivity (TFP). This paper attempts to explain these facts by modeling the creation and … destruction of jobs in the presence of heterogeneity in firm productivity and frictional credit and labor markets. The aggregate … level of TFP is determined by both the underlying distribution of firm productivity and the structures of the credit and …