We compare the productivity performances of 15 matched manufacturing sectors in Korea and Taiwan, using the Malmquist … multiplicative products of the indexes. The overall productivity and technology growth rates of Taiwan were higher than those of … productivity indexes, based on category-wise meta frontiers, 1978-1996. Comparisons at the sector levels are made using sequential …

The manufacturing sector in Taiwan has a market structure composed of large numbers of small firms, a heavy focus on … pressure on inefficient firms to exit. As a result, low cost entry and exit may contribute to aggregate productivity … total factor productivity among entering, exiting, and continuing firms, and quantify the contribution of firm turnover to …

We use plant output and input prices to decompose the profit margin into four parts: productivity, demand shocks, mark … the impact of productivity, and other market fundamentals, on plant exit. A dynamic simulation that compares the … distribution of productivity with and without the trade reform shows that improvements in market selection from trade reform help …

home country. This paper investigates the effects on productivity and trade from the perspective of transaction costs … suggests that the effect of offshoring manufacturing and services on total factor productivity (TFP) is positive and larger … than the effect of R&D on productivity. …

We use plant output and input prices to decompose the profit margin into four parts: productivity, demand shocks, mark … the impact of productivity, and other market fundamentals, on plant exit. A dynamic simulation that compares the … distribution of productivity with and without the trade reform shows that improvements in market selection from trade reform help …

We examine the link between trade liberalization and aggregate productivity, with a focus on improved market selection … closely on productivity. Using a dynamic simulation, we find that enhanced selection increases aggregate productivity … substantially. Trade liberalization also increases productivity of incumbent plants and improves the allocation of activity. We find …

Labour productivity growth in the Canadian business sector slowed substantially after 2000. Most of the slowdown … and a slowdown in export growth. The paper finds that at least half of the slowdown in aggregate productivity growth is … because of the pro-cyclical nature of productivity growth arising from capacity utilization. Almost all of the aggregate …

home country. This paper investigates the effects on productivity and trade from the perspective of transaction costs … suggests that the effect of offshoring manufacturing and services on total factor productivity (TFP) is positive and larger … than the effect of R&D on productivity …

productivity levels but also on long-term productivity growth rates in developing countries. Using a panel of Mexican manufacturing … industries, this paper examines several alternative mechanisms through which trade contributes positively to productivity levels … 1986. The results indicate that productivity growth is significantly correlated with the share of imported intermediate …