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Do firms learn by exporting or learn to export? : evidence from Senegalese manufacturing plant

Fatou, Cissé; Choi, Ji Eun - 2015

The increasing quantity of literature investigating the impact of trade openness on firm efficiency has not yet provided a definite prediction of the direction of causality. This paper investigates how the relationship between exporting and productivity impacts on manufacturing sectors in...

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Total factor productivity in South African manufacturing firms

Kreuser, Friedrich; Newman, Carol - 2016

The manufacturing sector is an important source of productivity growth and exports. Manufacturing firms are generally more productive than firms in the agricultural or services sectors and are an important source of job creation. Little is known about the productivity performance of the sector...

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Assessing European competitiveness : the new CompNet micro-based database

López-García, Paloma; Di Mauro, Filippo - CompNet Task Force - 2015

Drawing from confidential firm-level balance sheets for 17 European countries (13 Euro-Area), the paper documents the newly expanded database of cross-country comparable competitivenessrelated indicators built by the Competitiveness Research Network (CompNet). The new database provides...

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Market imperfections, skills and total factor productivity : firm-level evidence on Belgium and the Netherlands

Dobbelaere, Sabien; Vancauteren, Mark - 2014

This paper revisits the relationship between competition and total factor productivity by analyzing how the type and the degree of product and labor market imperfections affect different moments of total factor productivity distributions. Following the methodology developed in Dobbelaere and...

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Resource misallocation and total factor productivity : manufacturing firms in South Africa

Newman, Carol; Rand, John; Tsebe, Mpho Asnath - 2019

Misallocation of labour and capital can greatly reduce aggregate productivity. In this study, we use tax administrative data to examine the extent of resource misallocation in the South African context. In addition, we zoom in on how different government incentives affect the allocation (or...

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Misallocation and manufacturing TFP in Colombia

Camacho, Adriana; Conover, Emily; Scrimgeour, Dean - In: Economia : journal of the Latin American and Caribbean … 23 (2024) 1, pp. 1-29

Following Hsieh and Klenow (2009) this paper studies productivity dispersion in Colombian industrial establishments using the Colombian Annual Manufacturing Survey (AMS) from 1982 to 1998. We consider how much a hypothetical removal of firm-level distortions would increase manufacturing...

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Resource misallocation and TFP gap development in Austria

Sellner, Richard; Pintar, Nico; Ernst, Norbert - 2023

In this paper we provide firm-level evidence on the role of resource misallocation for total factor productivity development in Austria. We apply the indirect approach of measuring misallocation via the dispersion in marginal products within narrowly defined industries of Hsieh and Klenow (2009)...

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Misallocation and productivity in Colombia's manufacturing industries

Camacho, Adriana; Conover, Emily - 2010

Following Hsieh and Klenow (2009), this paper studies productivity dispersions in Colombian industrial establishments using the Colombian Annual Manufacturing Survey (AMS) from 1982 to 1998. The United States is used as a benchmark to estimate the reallocation of capital and labor to equalize...

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A constrained nonparametric regression analysis of factor-biased technical change and TFP growth at the firm level

Verschelde, Marijn; Dumont, Michel; Merlevede, Bruno; … - 2014

Using firm-level data for Belgium, we study the validity of Hicks neutrality in several sectors that cover the spectrum of knowledge intensity. We find that Hicks neutrality is clearly not supported by the data in different sectors. The results are not sensitive to altering the specification of...

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Powering Work from Home

Cicala, Steve - 2020

This paper documents an increase in residential electricity consumption while industrial and commercial consumption has … decline in industrial electricity consumption, but left residential usage unaffected. The increase in residential consumption … of 2020, total excess expenditure on residential electricity was nearly $6B …

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