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Trade and Productivity : Self-Selection or Learning-by-Exporting in India

Haidar, Jamal Ibrahim - 2013

Recent literature tried to explain the Indian growth miracle in different ways, ranging from trade liberalization to industrial reforms. Using data on Indian manufacturing firms, this paper analyzes the relationship between firm's productivity and export market participation during 1991-2004....

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Production Approach Markup Estimators Often Measure Input Wedges

Hashemi, Arshia; Kirov, Ivan; Traina, James - 2021

Output and input market distortions manifest as wedges in the firm's first order conditions. The production approach to markup estimation recovers the markup wedge using the output elasticity for a variable and undistorted input. We show that using the revenue elasticity for any variable input,...

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An Industrial Organization Perspective on Productivity

De Loecker, Jan; Syverson, Chad - 2021

This chapter overviews productivity research from an industrial organization perspective. We focus on what is known and what still needs to be learned about the productivity levels and dynamics of individual producers, but also how these interact through markets and industries to influence...

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Global Sourcing

Moi, Michael J.; van Tulder, Rob; Beije, Paul R. - 2013

propagated as a key means to improve the performance of firms. It is argued that becoming more lean and internationally focused …'s performance.The analysis reveals that for this sample of firms global sourcing is the exception rather than the rule. Although … performance. International outsourcing can not be used to adequately explain firm performance. Therefore, an alternative approach …

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Export market destination and performance : firm-level evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa

Njikam, Ousmanou - In: Journal of African trade : official journal of the … 4 (2017) 1/2, pp. 1-19

, and South Africa) and performance. The paper also examines differences between exporters and non-exporters performance and … enterprise performance, such as increases in overall output and labor productivity, while the reverse holds for exports to other …

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Tracing mobile inventors : the causality between inventor mobility and inventor productivity

Hoisl, Karin - 2006

This paper analyzes the causality between inventor productivity and inventor mobility. The results show that the level of education has no influence on inventor productivity. Making use of external sources of knowledge, on the contrary, has a significant effect on productivity. Finally, firm...

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Precocious inventors : early patenting success and lifetime inventive performance

Michlbauer, Theresa; Zwick, Thomas - 2021

This paper shows that inventors with an early patenting success have a higher inventive productivity during their remaining career. We use European patent data for a period of 32 years for 1240 German inventors. The patent data are linked with survey data that provide information on an extensive...

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Manufacturing, Services and the Productivity Gap

Arbache, Jorge - 2017

We examine a little explored and yet important aspect of the poor productivity in Brazil: the performance of the … availability are limited, while prices are generally high. We show evidences that the meagre long-term performance of the services …

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Corporate R&D and Firm Effi ciency:Evidence from Europe’s Top R&D Investors

Kumbhakar, Subal; Ortega-Argilés, Raquel; Potters, Lesley - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2009

The main objective of this study is to investigate the impact of corporate R&D activities onfirms’ performance …

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Corporate R&D and firm efficiency : evidence from Europe's top R&D investors

Kumbhakar, Subal; Ortega-Argilés, Raquel; Potters, Lesley - 2010

The main objective of this study is to investigate the impact of corporate R&D activities on firm performance, measured …

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