Estimating Firm-Level Productivity in Differentiated Product Industries

By Marc J. Melitz. 2000

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Self-Selection and Post-Entry Effects of Exports: Evidence from Italian Manufacturing Firms (2008, methodology): “To properly measure the productivity differences between exporters and non-exporters (and more generally between firms), ones should ideally observe the quantities and the qualities of varieties produced by a firm (Marschak and Andrews 1944; Melitz 2001 ).”
Product Differentiation, Multi-Product Firms and Estimating the Impact of Trade Liberalization on Productivity (2007, methodology): “For notation purposes I assume a constant demand elasticity across products (η) and I aggregate the product-firm revenue to the firm revenue by taking the sum over the number of products produced Mit, i.e. Rit = PMi j Rijt as in Melitz (2001).”
Openness to Trade and Industry Cost Dispersion: Evidence from a Panel of Italian Firms (2008, unknown): “Melitz (2000) shows that, under monopolistic competition, such a monotonicity condition holds whenever more productive firms do not set disproportionately higher markups than less productive firms.”
What's Driving the New Economy?: The Benefits of Workplace Innovation (2003, unknown): “As detailed in Melitz (2000) this can result in an additional source of bias.”
The Quality-Complementarity Hypothesis: Theory and Evidence from Colombia (2009, methodology): “This section develops a model of heterogeneous inputs, heterogeneous plant productivity, and heterogeneous outputs, extending the Melitz (2003) framework to accommodate a complementarity between input quality and plant productivity in generating output quality.”
Multinationals and U.S. Productivity Leadership: Evidence from Great Britain (2009, unknown): “…− pIt = qit + pit − pIt (4) To control for unobserved plant level prices we specify a demand function that links prices to output as follows (see also Melitz (2000)): Qit = ( Pit PIt )−η Λη−1it ΘIt (5) where subscripts i denote firm and I industry; Λit is a firm specific demand shock, η is…”
Product Substitutability and Productivity Dispersion (2004, background): “Melitz (2000) points out one effect of this is an under-measurement bias in between-plant productivity differences, where the size of this bias is larger when the elasticity of output substitution is low.”
Specialization Across Varieties and North-South Competition (2007, unknown): “On the supply side, possible explanations of the positive relationship between unit values of exports and exporters’ income per capita identified by Schott (2004) in the US case, would be the exploitation of the productivity advantage to specialize in top-range varieties (Melitz, 2000); or, more gen”
Trade Integration, Firm Selection and the Costs of Non-Europe (2006, methodology): “Therefore, we know everything about (18) except as (which is industry specific only) and ψs (which is country and industry specific).”