Product Differentiation, Multi-Product Firms and Estimating the Impact of Trade Liberalization on Productivity

By Jan De Loecker. 2007

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Strategy and Management

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In Economics and Econometrics

1. John Van Reenen
2. Peter K. Schott
3. Andrew B. Bernard
4. Jan De Loecker
5. Michael Peters
6. J. B. Jensen
7. Nicholas Bloom
8. S. Redding

In Strategy and Management

1. Andrew B. Bernard
2. Michael Peters
3. Jan De Loecker
4. Ilke Van Beveren
5. J. B. Jensen
6. Peter K. Schott
7. S. Redding
8. Valérie Smeets

Citations in the corpus

• The Role of Intermediaries in Facilitating Trade (2011, neutral): “17We also note that estimating productivity from revenue data is notoriously di¢ cult (see Erdem and Tybout (2003) and De Loecker (2007)).”
• Imported Intermediate Inputs and Domestic Product Growth: Evidence from India (2010, neutral): “noted by Erdem and Tybout (2003) and De Loecker (2007) , a potential problem with the”
• Imported Intermediate Inputs and Domestic Product Growth: Evidence from India (2009, neutral): “…in contrast to earlier work, our main focus is not on TFP, but rather on the domestic product margin.6 As noted by Erdem and Tybout (2003) and De Loecker (2007), a potential problem with the interpretation of the TFP findings, is that the use of revenue data to calculate TFP implies that it is…”
• Productivity and the Decision to Import and Export: Theory and Evidence (2008, methodology): “We then use these profit functions to construct the Bellman equations for each plant using equations (10)-(13).”
• Heterogeneous Markups, Growth, and Endogenous Misallocation (2020, methodology): “The average mark-up in the economy is slightly below 20%, which is broadly in line with the results reported in De Loecker and Warzynski (2012). While the implied TFP losses are modest (on the order of magnitude of 1%), the implicit labor (and investment) tax is quite substantial: factor prices are ”
• Identification Properties of Recent Production Function Estimators (2015, methodology): “If one does not observe the price differences, then other techniques are required—see Klette and Griliches (1996), De Loecker (2011), and De Loecker and Warzynski (2012) for recent methodological advances for this situation.”
• The Impact of Trade Liberalization on Firm Productivity and Innovation (2018, positive): “Interestingly, learning by exporting happens predominantly at firms exporting to more developed economies (van Biesebroeck 2005; De Loecker 2007; Atkin, Khandelwal, and Osman 2017), likely due to such economies offering more scope for firms to learn from technologically advanced buyers.8 IV.”
• Processing Trade, Tariff Reductions and Firm Productivity: Evidence from Chinese Firms (2015, positive): “input usage across firms (De Loecker, 2011; De Loecker and Warzynski, 2012). Admittedly, an ideal way to remove price differences across firms would be to adopt firm-specific price deflators (Foster et al., 2007). However, as in many other studies, such price data are unavailable. Following De Loeck”
• The Quality-Complementarity Hypothesis: Theory and Evidence from Colombia (2009, background): “(58)Exceptions include de Loecker (2007) and the Katayama, Lu, and Tybout (2006) paper itself, both of which structurally estimate demand systems to help distinguish the contributions of mark-ups, demand shocks (i.”