Firm heterogeneity and the allocation of resources across firms play a key role in determining aggregate productivity …. Entry barriers and misallocation can substantially impact productivity, as evidenced in recent work. This article provides a …

This article first reviews the well-known nonparametric methods of decomposing productivity growth and finally argue … that Färe et al. (1994)’s method of computing productivity growth is superior in spite of the fact that this model model is … sample of 60 steel units in India over the period 1989-1996 to decompose the productivity growth into its various components …