Products and productivity
By: Peter K. Schott, Andrew B. Bernard, Stephen J. Redding.
Contributors: Bernard, Andrew B., 1963-; Redding, Stephen.; National Bureau of Economic Research.
Series: NBER working paper series ;; working paper 11575; Working paper series (National Bureau of Economic Research : Online) ;; working paper no. 11575.
Publisher: National Bureau of Economic Research
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Cambridge, MA
Language: eng
Format: Electronic resource
Subjects: New products -- Mathematical models.; Product management -- Mathematical models.; Industrial productivity -- Mathematical models.
Description: "Firms' decisions about which goods to produce are often made at a more disaggregate level than the data observed by empirical researchers.  When products differ according to production technique or the way in which they enter demand, this data aggregation problem introduces a bias into standard measures of firm productivity.  We develop a theoretical model of heterogeneous firms endogenously self-selecting into heterogeneous products.  We characterize the bias introduced by unobserved variation in product mix across firms, and the implications of this bias for identifying firm and industry responses to exogenous policy shocks such as deregulation.  More generally, we demonstrate that product switching gives rise to a richer set of industry-level dynamics than models where firm product mix remains fixed"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Bernard's name appear first on the electronic version issued by the Centre for Economic Performance, London School of Economics and Political Science.
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