Exporting and plant-level efficiency gains: It’s in the measure

While there is strong evidence that more productive plants select into exporting, the literature has struggled to identify export-related efficiency gains within plants. We show that this is due to the common use of revenue-based productivity measures (TFPR): more efficient producers tend to charge...

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Main Authors: Garcia-Marin, A. (Author), Voigtländer, N. (Author)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Chicago Press 2019
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