This paper investigates the extent to which productivity growth is the result of turnover - the process that shifts … continuing producers. The paper proposes a method for measuring the impact of plant turnover on productivity growth and outlines …

structure on firm conduct and productivity in a rapidly innovating industry. Both industries were competitive in the 1880s, and … formation of the Tobacco Trust in 1890, U.S. productivity growth slowed and the UK assumed the productivity lead. Productivity …-trust action in 1911. This case provides examples of competition leading to more rapid productivity growth through both more rapid …

productivity of larger firms relative to smaller firms. In particular, collusion is associated with a reduction or even a reversal … of the productivity gap between larger and smaller firms. This result is robust to controlling for the potential … endogeneity of collusion. -- Competition ; collusion ; productivity …

Productivity growth in Japan, as in most advanced economies, has moderated. This paper finds supportive evidence for … the important role of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in explaining Japan's modest productivity growth. Results … show a substantial dispersion in firm-level productivity growth across sectors and even across firms within the same sector …