Bernard, Andrew B., Redding, Stephen and Schott, Peter K. (2009) Products and productivity. Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 111 (4). pp. 681-709. ISSN 0347-0520
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When firms make decisions about which product to manufacture at a more disaggregated level than observed in the data, measured firm productivity reflects both characteristics of the firm and attributes of the products that are non-randomly chosen by the firm. This paper develops a model of industry equilibrium in which firms endogenously sort across products and characterizes the resulting bias in measured firm and aggregate productivity. Calibrating the model's parameters, we show that endogenous product selection can have quantitatively important effects on measured firm and aggregate productivity and their response to changes in parameter values
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Official URL: | http://www.wiley.com/bw/journal.asp?ref=0347-0520 |
| Additional Information: | © 2009 by John Wiley & Sons, Inc |
| Divisions: | Centre for Economic Performance Economics |
| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HC Economic History and Conditions |
| JEL classification: | L - Industrial Organization > L6 - Industry Studies: Manufacturing > L60 - General D - Microeconomics > D2 - Production and Organizations > D21 - Firm Behavior L - Industrial Organization > L1 - Market Structure, Firm Strategy, and Market Performance > L11 - Production, Pricing, and Market Structure; Size Distribution of Firms |
| Date Deposited: | 02 Feb 2010 13:46 |
| Last Modified: | 11 Dec 2024 23:30 |
| URI: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/26895 |
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