This paper relates firm level input changes and productivity to aggregate growth of the Hungarian economy for the … the role of firm productivity in growth was not stable over time. It played important role in early transition and in the … input reallocation shows a decreasing trend in Hungary. -- Growth decomposition ; productivity ; reallocation ; firm level …

Total factor productivity (TFP) in Latin America has not increased relative to the US since the mid- 1970s, and in many …-level data from 10 Latin American countries to quantify the heterogeneity of firm productivity and the degree of resource … misallocation within countries. Productivity heterogeneity and resource misallocation are found to be much larger than in the United …

We consider economic development of sub-Saharan Africa from the perspective of slow convergence of productivity, both … across sectors and firms within sectors. Why have 'productivity enclaves', islands of high productivity in a sea of smaller … low-productivity firms, not diffused more rapidly? We summarize and analyse three sets of factors: First, the poor …

aggregate performance. -- Firm heterogeneity ; productivity ; allocation of resources ; distortions …This paper combines different strands of the productivity literature to investigate the effect of idiosyncratic (firm …-country differences in key economic outcomes, such as productivity or output per capita, to differences in policies and institutions that …

industries scale economies (and subsequently productivity) cannot be estimated independently of markups. We extend this basic …-Griliches estimation procedure will tend to overestimate exporting firm markups and underestimate their productivity. In addition, we … exporter productivity. …

database of comparable productivity indicators built by members of the Competitiveness Research Network (CompNet) using a newly ….g. productivity and size. The database comprises so far 11 countries, with information for 58 sectors over the period 1995-2011. The … preliminary results. Among them, it shows that there is large heterogeneity in terms of firm productivity or size within narrowly …

productivity or vice versa? Using firm-level administrative data for Spain, I find that productivity shocks are followed by … significant increases in size defined by employment. In contrast, size shocks are not followed by productivity gains at the firm …