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 joint dynamics of the firm-level productivity and size distributions …

This paper analyses plant entry, total factor productivity growth, average productivity level differentials and … industry productivity and induced plant restructuring among incumbent plants. There is consistent plant heterogeneity across … that entrants adopted competitive post-entry strategies. Total factor productivity growth decomposition shows that the …

How do new firms contribute to industry productivity growth at the time of entry and then subsequently over their … have a negative effect on industry productivity growth initially, but a prolonged process of market selection and exit … during the early stages of the firms’ lifecycle mitigates this negative effect subsequently. The positive productivity …

productivity constructed from micro data to find that in the aftermath of the reforms, efficiency gains were explained by within …

The authors of this book link productivity change, trade competitiveness, networks of interaction and cooperation and … form West Bengal and Nepal. One model is driven by firms' ability to trade for productivity and to increase unit value. The … the investment and trade environment - result initially in small productivity differences that can be amplified in a non …

pressure on inefficient firms to exit. As a result, low cost entry and exit may contribute to aggregate productivity … total factor productivity among entering, exiting, and continuing firms, and quantify the contribution of firm turnover to … industry productivity improvements. We find significant differences in productivity across manufacturing firms that are …