Why Plant-Level Productivity Studies are Often Misleading, and an Alternative Approach to Interference

By H. Katayama, Shihua Lu, J. Tybout. 2003

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Learning-by-Exporting Effects: Are They for Real? (2015, background): “Accounting for differences in factor quality is important in light of the criticism to plant-level TFP estimates made by Katayama et al. (2003).”
Heterogeneous responses of firms to trade protection (2008, background): “14 case (Klette and Griliches, 1996; Levinsohn and Melitz, 2002 and Katayama, Lu and Tybout, 2003).”
Product Differentiation, Multi-Product Firms and Estimating the Impact of Trade Liberalization on Productivity (2007, methodology): “2.1 Identification of the production function parameters Let us start with the production side where a firm i at time t produces (a product) according to the following production function 8 I will come back to the exact differences and extensions of my methodology compared to Melitz (2001) and…”
Do exports generate higher productivity? Evidence from Slovenia (2007, background): “However, as mentioned in Katayama et al. (2003), the implications for welfare crucially hinge upon the correct productivity estimates, controlled for price setting power.”