A Richer Understanding of Australia’s Productivity Performance in the 1990s: Improved estimates based upon firm-level panel data
Breunig, Robert; Wong, Marn-Heong
Description
Australia’s productivity performance is characterized by important differences across continuing firms, frequent entry of new firms, and substantial exit of firms which, for one reason or another, decide to cease production. These basic facts call into question the appropriateness of measuring productivity using an aggregate production function that is based upon a representative firm. This study relaxes the standard assumptions that industries are comprised of a set of homogeneous firms,...[Show more]
Collections | ANU Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) |
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Date published: | 2007-03 |
Type: | Working/Technical Paper |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/1885/45266 http://digitalcollections.anu.edu.au/handle/1885/45266 |
Access Rights: | Open Access |
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