Size and efficiency in African manufacturing firms: Evidence from firm-level panel data

By Måns Söderbom, F. Teal. 2004

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Firm Size Matters: Growth and Productivity Growth in African Manufacturing (2005, background): “This just exceeds the range of RTS estimates that Tybout (2000) cites based on studies from Asia, Latin America, and northern Africa (0.05–0.10) or the 0.04 to 0.13 range in So¨derbom and Teal (2004).”
Exporting from Manufacturing Firms in Sub-Saharan Africa (2006, methodology): “We begin to do that in section 3 where we present the data we have collated for five SSA countries - Ghana, Kenya, Tanzania, Nigeria and South Africa.”
The Dynamics of Returns to Education in Kenyan and Tanzanian Manufacturing (2006, methodology): “For a panel data analysis based on the firm level data, see Söderbom and Teal (2004).”
What Have We Learned from a Decade of Manufacturing Enterprise Surveys in Africa? (2005, unknown): “Söderbom and Teal (2004) investigate if there is any evidence of increasing returns to scale in Ghanaian manufacturing.”
Strategic entrepreneurship and small firm growth in Ghana (2014, background): “This has been attributed to the poor competitiveness of Ghanaian products in the world market (Frazer, 2005; Soderbom and Teal, 2003) and the lack of technical efficiency across firms (Teal, 1999).”
Performance assessment of construction companies: A study of factors promoting financial soundness and innovation in the industry (2012, background): “The issue of whether larger companies are superior in performance to smaller companies, or vice versa, generated a large amount of theoretical and empirical research in many activity sectors, such as in manufacturing (Soderbom, 2004; Halkos and Tzeremes, 2007), transportation (Odeck, 2008), or banki”
Foreign Presence, Spillovers, and Productivity: Evidence from Ghana (2010, background): “Söderbom and Teal (2004) address the issue of dispersion of productivity in this sample of firms.”
Occupational Choice in Early Industrializing Societies: Experimental Evidence on the Income and Health Effects of Industrial and Entrepreneurial Work (2016, unknown): “For Mexico see Bernard et al. (2010); Verhoogen (2008) and for Africa see Söderbom and Teal (2004); El Badaoui et al. (2008).”
Which Firms Die? A Look at Manufacturing Firm Exit in Ghana (2005, background): “The link between productivity and export in African firms has been found empirically in the work of Söderbom and Teal (2000), who find that exporting firms are some 24% more efficient than firms that do not export.”