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Dynamic Olley-Pakes Productivity Decomposition with Entry and Exit
- Source :
- Melitz, Marc J., and Sašo Polanec. 2015. “Dynamic Olley-Pakes Productivity Decomposition with Entry and Exit.” The RAND Journal of Economics 46 (2) (April 23): 362–375. doi:10.1111/1756-2171.12088.
- Publication Year :
- 2015
- Publisher :
- Wiley-Blackwell, 2015.
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Abstract
- In this paper, we propose an extension of the productivity decomposition method developed by Olley & Pakes (1996). This extension provides an accounting for the contributions of both firm entry and exit to aggregate productivity changes. It breaks down the contribution of surviving firms into a component accounting for changes in the firm-level distribution of productivity and another accounting for market share reallocations among those firms - following the same methodology as the one proposed by Olley & Pakes (1996). We argue that the other decompositions that break-down aggregate productivity changes into these same four components introduce some biases in the measurement of the contributions of entry and exit. We apply our proposed decomposition to the large measured increases of productivity in Slovenian manufacturing during the 1995-2000 period and contrast our results with those of other decompositions. We find that, over a 5-year period, the measurement bias associated with entry and exit is substantial, accounting for up to 10 percentage points of aggregate productivity growth. We also find that market share reallocations among surviving firms played a much more important role in driving aggregate productivity changes.<br />Economics
- Subjects :
- Productivity Decomposition
Industry Productivity
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- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 07416261 and 17562171
- Database :
- Digital Access to Scholarship at Harvard (DASH)
- Journal :
- Melitz, Marc J., and Sašo Polanec. 2015. “Dynamic Olley-Pakes Productivity Decomposition with Entry and Exit.” The RAND Journal of Economics 46 (2) (April 23): 362–375. doi:10.1111/1756-2171.12088.
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- edshld.1.17492204
- Document Type :
- Journal Article
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1111/1756-2171.12088