Reallocation, firm turnover, and efficiency
selection on productivity or profitability?
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Author
Contributions
- Haltiwanger, John C. - Contributor
- Syverson, Chad. - Contributor
- National Bureau of Economic Research. - Contributor
Publication
2005 - National Bureau of Economic Research, Cambridge, Mass, Massachusetts
Language
English
Word Count
8,500 words, Guess
Page Count
34 pages
Identifiers
- OCLC Control Number61398642
- Open LibraryOL17627680M
Description
"There is considerable evidence that producer-level churning contributes substantially to aggregate (industry) productivity growth, as more productive businesses displace less productive ones. However, this research has been limited by the fact that producer-level prices are typically unobserved; thus within-industry price differences are embodied in productivity measures. If prices reflect idiosyncratic demand or market power shifts, high "productivity" businesses may not be particularly efficient, and the literature's findings might be better interpreted as evidence of entering businesses displacing less profitable, but not necessarily less productive, exiting businesses. In this paper, we investigate the nature of selection and productivity growth using data from industries where we observe producer-level quantities and prices separately. We show there are important differences between revenue and physical productivity. A key dissimilarity is that physical productivity is inversely correlated with plant-level prices while revenue productivity is positively correlated with prices. This implies that previous work linking (revenue-based) productivity to survival has confounded the separate and opposing effects of technical efficiency and demand on survival, understating the true impacts of both. We further show that young producers charge lower prices than incumbents, and as such the literature understates the productivity advantage of new producers and the contribution of entry to aggregate productivity growth"--Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit web site.
Subjects
Series Statement
- NBER working paper series -- no. 11555.
- Working paper series (National Bureau of Economic Research) -- working paper no. 11555.
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