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Forecasting Aggregate Productivity using Information from Firm-Level Data

Bartelsman, Eric J.; Wolf, Zoltan - 2009

This paper contributes to the productivity literature by using results from firm-level productivity studies to improve forecasts of macro-level productivity growth. The paper employs current research methods on estimating firm-level productivity to build times-series components that capture the...

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Firm-level evidence on productivity differentials, turnover, and exports in Taiwanese manufacturing

Aw, Bee-yan; Chen, Xiaomin; Roberts, Mark J. - 1997

Recent dynamic models of firm entry and exit emphasise the relationship between a firm's productivity and the decision … to enter or exit. If firm turnover is driven by productivity differentials then the reallocation of resources across … documents the extent of firm turnover in both the domestic and export markets, uses index numbers to measure differences in …

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Driving factors of growth in Hungary - a decomposition exercise

Kátay, Gábor; Wolf, Zoltán - 2008

Applications tend to ignore that measured TFP reflects the variation of output that cannot be explained by changes in inputs. Such a change is not necessarily technological, so measured TFP differences across firms are an amalgam of technological, efficiency and other differences in attributes,...

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Forecasting aggregate productivity using information from firm-level data

Bartelsman, Eric J.; Wolf, Zoltán - 2009

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Firm lifecycles and external restructuring

Hyytinen, Ari; Maliranta, Mika - 2011

effect is tightly related to the negative initial productivity effect of entry. We also find some evidence that productivity …

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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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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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Agricultural productivity growth in Latin America and the Caribbean and other world regions : an analysis of climatic effects, convergence and catch-up

Lachaud, Michée Arnold; Bravo-Ureta, Boris E.; Ludena, … - 2015

This study estimates Climate Adjusted Total Factor Productivity (CATFP) for agriculture in Latin America and Caribbean (LAC) countries, while also providing comparisons with several regions of the world. Climatic variability is introduced in Stochastic Production Frontier (SPF) models by...

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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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Every cloud has a silver lining : cleansing effects of the Portuguese financial crisis

Dias, Daniel; Marques, Carlos Robalo - 2019

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