, age of firms and geographical location. -- TFP ; Market Structure ; Manufacturing …This paper analyzes productivity levels, dispersion and growth in the Bolivian Manufacturing Sector during the Market … promote economic growth with fairness. We show that in contrast to what was expected, productivity in the manufacturing sector …

than 7 per cent annually since 1992, the economy is mostly based on low-productivity agriculture. Manufacturing contributes …

contribute to this line of research by providing industry-specific evidence for German manufacturing industries, based on … role of digitization. Our results do not suggest an overall average increase in market power in German manufacturing …

quantity metrics. Consistent with manufacturing studies, we find market entrants have lower prices and higher Total Factor … Productivity (TFP) than incumbents. Increased competition from new entrants leads incumbents to reduce the price of union …. Those with higher TFP have higher survival probabilities. However, increased competition does not induce incumbents to raise …

This paper explores the link between exports and total factor productivity (TFP) for Brazilian manufacturing firms over … authors first obtain TFP estimates under each alternative assumption following Wooldridge (On estimating firm-level production …, the authors test whether exporting boosts firms TFP growth (learning-by-exporting hypothesis) using matching techniques …

acquired firms, especially in the manufacturing and services sectors, as well as in less knowledge intensive activities. Firms …

development of infrastructure, among others. Total factor productivity (TFP) estimates for these commodities indicate the … potential to overcome these constraints, however. Key determinants of TFP growth were identified and discussed. While the … influence of these determinants on the TFP estimates was not tested empirically in this study because of data limitations …

, and total factor productivity (TFP) using firm-level data for China between 1998 and 2007. We find, consistent with the … model, that the firms with the highest levels of TFP had low levels of political affiliation and/or state ownership. …

Using a unique plant-level dataset we examine total factor productivity (TFP) growth and its components, related to … literature on the Porter Hypothesis, which posits a positive relationship between environmental regulation and "green" TFP growth … of firms. Our exercise is innovative as Sweden has a unique regulatory structure where the manufacturing plants have to …