This paper examines the effect of government subsidies on firm-level productivity. The
subsidy-promoting policies are oftentimes justified on the ground that subsidies increase the …

Motivated by the long‐standing interest in understanding the role of location for firm
performance, this paper provides a semiparametric methodology to accommodate locational …

We develop a novel methodology for the proxy variable identification of firm productivity in
the presence of productivity-modifying learning and spillovers, which facilitates a unified …

Today,“Made in China” products are ubiquitous in markets in both developed and
developing countries. It is no exaggeration to say that we can surely find Chinese goods in …

The paper focuses on comparing two popular approaches to estimate firm production
technology: the proxy-variable method and stochastic frontier (SF) analysis approach. We …

We consider identification and estimation of the firm-level gross production function with a
controlled productivity evolution process and endogenous contemporaneous productivity …

This paper introduces a novel by-production approach to modeling desirable and
undesirable output production processes in the US banking sector. We utilize the structural …

Although there is an extensive literature on the measurement of total factor productivity (TFP)
and its decomposition, the benefits of international trade for aggregate TFP have been less …

Building on the recent development in the literature on production function identification and
decomposition methods, in this paper we examine the sources of output and productivity …

There is growing empirical evidence that firm heterogeneity is technologically non-neutral.
This chapter extends the Gandhi, Navarro, and Rivers (2020) proxy variable framework for …