productivity growth, while the older literature focused on average productivity improvements (“learning”). The authors use … important role in aggregate productivity gains immediately following the start of India's trade reforms in 1991. However …, aggregate productivity gains during the overall 20-year period from 1985 to 2004 were driven largely by improvements in average …

estimation of production functions together with information on prices and quantities to estimate physical productivity, markups …

functions together with detailed product-level information on prices and quantities to estimate physical productivity, markups … based on commonly used measures of revenue productivity. In contrast, we measure sizable efficiency gains using measures … that are not affected by pricing heterogeneity, such as marginal costs and physical productivity. Exploiting exogenous …

How trade shocks emanating from a low-wage country affect the productivity of manufacturing plants in other low … from 1998 to 2009. Increased import competition from China leads to an improvement in revenue productivity, and a reduction … revenue productivity of large plants and a 1 percent decrease in the number of products within-plant. However, the impact on …

The purpose of this study is to develop a methodology in measuring productivity growth by decomposing it into technical … of liberalization on productivity growth of India's paper industry. Specifically, this study quantifies the level of … technical efficiency and technical change in this particular manufacturing sector. The paper applies Malmquist Productivity …

productivity growth (TFPG) into technical change and efficiency change. Färe et al. (1994) measure TFPG by taking geometric mean of … productivity estimates of these two indexes are broadly similar. Our empirical results based on Indian Sunrise industries data … indicate that the transition period of economic liberalization experiences high productivity decay despite high technical …

conditional on controlling for initial selection, the establishment of SEZs induced no further productivity gains for within SEZ … experienced significant productivity gains. However, SEZs created negative externalities for firms in the vicinity which attenuate …