Firm Size Matters: Growth and Productivity Growth in African Manufacturing

By Johannes Van Biesebroeck. Economic development and cultural change, 2005

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Revisiting Some Productivity Debates (2003, methodology): “The second approach to control for self-selection is with a matching estimator as in Wagner (2002), Girma, Greenaway, and Kneller (2004), and De Loecker (2005).”
Strategic entrepreneurship and small firm growth in Ghana (2014, background): “These results are not surprising for Ghana, as various empirical studies undertaken to measure the productivity and growth performance of firms in the manufacturing sector have found similar results (Biesebroeck, 2005; Frazer, 2005; Teal, 1998).”
The Sensitivity of Productivity Estimates (2008, background): “information on the country, and the size distribution of firms, see Van Biesebroeck (2005b) .”
What Have We Learned from a Decade of Manufacturing Enterprise Surveys in Africa? (2005, positive): “The idea that efficiency wages drive the wage–size gap is considered by Velenchik (1997), but not tested directly.”
The impact of knowledge spillovers and innovation on firm-performance: findings from the Balkans countries (2017, background): “Castany et al. (2005); Van Biesebroeck (2005); Pagés (2010); Geroski (1998) and Tybout (2000) concluded that firms which have better access to technology, managerial skills, finance, learning, flexible non-hierarchical structure perform better than the others.”
Product and Process Productivity: Implications for quality choice and conditional exporter premia (2013, background): “…and Jensen (1995) first documented CEPs for the United States, CEPs have also been documented by Bernard and Jensen (1999), Isgut (2001), Van Biesebroeck (2005), De Loecker (2007), and Bernard et al. (2007), among others, for average wages and capital intensity, and by Kugler and Verhoogen…”
Firm Dynamics, Productivity Growth, and Job Creation in Developing Countries: The Role of Micro- and Small Enterprises (2015, positive): “Using a revenue measure of TFP, Hsieh and Klenow (2009) found that the ratio was as high as 3.3; it was even higher when using a physical measure of TFP. Faggio, Salvanes, and Van Reenen (2010) documented that the dispersion of productivity within industries in the United Kingdom has trended upwards”
Dynamic Inputs and Resource (Mis)Allocation (2014, background): “Van Biesebroeck, J. (2005): “Firm size matters: Growth and productivity growth in African manufacturing,” Economic Development and Cultural Change, 53(3), 545– 583.”
High-growth firms and productivity: evidence from the United Kingdom (2015, result): “Given what we know, TFP is both the source of long term economic growth, and closely tied with innovation and internationalization, it is important to consider TFP both as cause and effect, when viewed in combination with employment growth, export status, and technology adoption (Van Biesebroeck, 20”
Firm Productivity in Bangladesh Manufacturing Industries (2006, background): “Interestingly, Van Biesebroeck (2005) finds a similar positive association between access to overdraft facilities and TFP and a negative association between access to bank loans and TFP”