profit-deviating preferences from the state-defined regulatory status of nonprofit production. We argue that this separation … is crucial in providing predictions about the underlying forces which allow the coexistence of nonprofit and for-profit … separating choice of nonprofit status from profit-deviating preferences, the paper provides predictions about the forces which …

The purpose of this paper is to treat scale economies, profit-maximizing markups, economic profitability, capacity … utilization and productivity growth within an integrated structural model, and to assess their interactions empirically using … annual two-digit U.S. manufacturing data. Attention is focused on error biases in measuring productivity using traditional …

This paper analyses the effects of the 1990 Brazilian trade liberalization on the total factor productivity, market … 1986/94 indicates very large total factor productivity gains in the period to 1994, which were accompanied by large falls …

less importance. Another result is that the level of total factor productivity, as a component of firm effects …