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estimation of production functions together with information on prices and quantities to estimate physical productivity, markups …
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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 …
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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 …
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This paper investigates whether better access to markets through an improved road network plays a role in improving the profitability of firms in India. We construct a district-level market access index using Indian road network shapefiles, district boundaries, and nightlight raster images and...
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productivity is derived. A semi-parametric approach is applied on a 3-digit level of industrial data over major states during 1998 …–2014 to regress the Solow residual (the proxy for productivity) on trade share along with its interaction terms capturing … hence raises productivity. It is argued that the joint effects of market size and competition arising out of trade cannot …
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productivity is derived. A semi-parametric approach is applied on a 3-digit level of industrial data over major states during 1998 …-2014 to regress Solow residual (the proxy for productivity) on trade share along with its interaction terms capturing market … productivity. It is argued that the joint effects of market size and competition arising out of trade cannot dominate the adverse …
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"Learning-by-doing" is usually identified as a process whereby performance increases with experience in production. The paper investigates different patterns of "learning by doing", studying learning curves at product level. Cost-quantity relationships differ a lot across products belonging to...
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This paper briefly reviews the existing methods of capacity utilization in nonparametric framework from economic perspectives, and then suggests an alternative in the light of limitations therein. In the spirit of work by Coelli et al. [Coelli, T.J., Grifell-Tatje, E., Perelman, S., 2002....
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