Skills, Investment and Exports from Manufacturing Firms in Africa

By Måns Söderbom, Francis Teal. 2000

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Foreign Presence, Spillovers, and Productivity: Evidence from Ghana (2010, background): “Francis Teal (1999; 2000) and coauthors (Söderbom and Teal, 2000, 2004; Söderbom, Teal and Harding, 2006) have made extensive use of the Ghanaian survey data.”
Exporting from Manufacturing Firms in Sub-Saharan Africa (2006, methodology): “Efficiency is also significant in most studies, albeit often only at the 10% level (see Söderbom and Teal, 2000; Bigsten et al, 2002; Bernard and Jensen, 1997, 2001).”
Are manufacturing exports the key to economic success in Africa (2003, methodology): “We consider a Cobb-Douglas production function of the form [2] itititit controlsxy ηβ ++= , where itx is a vector of factor inputs measured in natural logarithms, β is a vector of parameters to be estimated, controlsit is a vector of total factor productivity shifters, itη is a homoskedastic, serial”
Firm Productivity and Exports: Evidence from Ethiopian Manufacturing (2009, background): “These are very restrictive assumptions, particularly for Africa (Söderbom and Teal, 2000).2 However, for those who derived TFP by regressing a production function, a major challenge is how to address the endogeneity that might arise from correlation between unobserved heterogeneity and inputs…”