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Measuring Aggregate Productivity Growth Using Plant-Level Data

Petrin, Amil; Levinsohn, James Alan - 2021

We define aggregate productivity growth as the change in aggregate final demand minus the change in the aggregate cost … and sunk costs, and market power. We compare our measure of aggregate productivity growth to several competing variants … differ substantially from these measures of aggregate productivity growth. We illustrate this using panel data from …

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Trade Induced Technical Change? The Impact of Chinese Imports on Innovation, it and Productivity

Bloom, Nicholas - 2015

We examine the impact of Chinese import competition on patenting, IT, R&D and TFP using a panel of up to half a million firms over 1996-2007 across twelve European countries. We correct for endogeneity using the removal of product-specific quotas following China's entry into the World Trade...

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Nonprofit Production and Competition

Lakdawalla, Darius; Philipson, Tomas J. - 2021

Industries in which private nonprofit production is present and significant, such as health care and education, account for more than one-fifth of US economic activity. This paper argues that previous analysis of nonprofits has not separated profit-deviating preferences from the state-defined...

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Do Product Market Regulations in Upstream Sectors Curb Productivity Growth? Panel Data Evidence for OECD Countries

Bourlès, Renaud - 2010

improve productivity downstream. We confirm such prediction by estimating a model of multifactor productivity growth in which … to the productivity frontier …

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Why Isn't Mexico Rich?

Hanson, Gordon H. - 2010

, distortions in the supply of non-traded inputs, and perverse incentives for informality creates a drag on productivity growth …

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Death by Market Power : Reform, Competition and Patient Outcomes in the National Health Service

Gaynor, Martin - 2010

competition on not only clinical outcomes but also productivity and expenditure. Our data set is large, containing information on …

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Back on the Rails : Competition and Productivity in State-Owned Industry

Das, Sanghamitra - 2010

understand the determinants of changes in plant productivity in 2000-2003. During this period there was a 35 percent increase in …

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An Alternative Theory of the Plant Size Distribution with an Application to Trade

Holmes, Thomas J. - 2010

classifications used by statistical agencies. Standard theories attribute all such size differences to productivity differences. This …

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The Effects of Government-Sponsored Venture Capital : International Evidence

Brander, James A. - 2014

This paper examines the impact of government-sponsored venture capitalists (GVCs) on the success of enterprises. Using international enterprise-level data, we identify a surprising non-monotonicity in the effect of GVC on the likelihood of exit via initial public offerings (IPOs) or third party...

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Latin America in the Rearview Mirror

Cole, Harold L.; Ohanian, Lee E.; Riascos Villegas, … - 2021

competitive barriers increase productivity to Western levels …

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