Product Substitutability and Productivity Dispersion

By Chad Syverson. Review of Economics and Statistics, 2004

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Openness to Trade and Industry Cost Dispersion: Evidence from a Panel of Italian Firms (2008, positive): “In line with Syverson (2004), all specifications in Tables 11–14 also reveal a negative relation between product substitutability and cost dispersion.”
Prices, Spatial Competition, and Heterogenous Producers: An Empirical Test (2007, positive): “This is consistent with evidence I have found in previous work (Syverson 2004a, 2004b) that product substitutability, spatial or otherwise, shapes equilibrium productivity distributions.”
Market Structure and Productivity: A Concrete Example (2004, positive): “Further, producers in higher- 2 To see if the results of this case study hold more broadly, I investigate in Syverson (2004) how across-industry differences in measurable output substitutability factors are correlated with industries’ plant-level productivity distribution moments.”
Advanced Technologies Adoption and Use by U.S. Firms: Evidence from the Annual Business Survey (2020, positive): “6 While high cross-sectional heterogeneity in firm performance is long-established (e.g., Syverson 2004 & 2011; Hopenhayn 2014), recent studies point to increasing firm heterogeneity along a number of economically important dimensions (Andrews et al. 2015; Van Reenen 2018; Song et al. 2019; Decker…”
The New Empirical Economics of Management (2014, neutral): “For example, Syverson (2004a) analyses labor productivity (value-added per worker) in US manufacturing establishments in the 1997 Economic Census and shows that on average, a plant at the 90th percentile of the labor productivity distribution has four times higher labor productivity than a plant at…”
Technical Change and Industrial Dynamics as Evolutionary Processes (2009, background): “…notice that inter-firm / inter-plant differences in labour productivities are not accounted for by differences in relative factor intensities (cf. Syverson, 2004; preliminary elaborations by one of us on the Italian industry show that the withinindustry / cross-firm correlations between labour…”
Distorted gravity: Heterogeneous Firms, Market Structure and the Geography of International Trade ∗ (2004, background): “Syverson (2004) describes the effect of product substitutability on the selection of firms and the equilibrium dispersion of 4The home market hypothesis is the fact that big countries produce more goods with scale economies. firm productivity.”
Cash Holdings, Competition, and Innovation (2016, positive): “13 Electronic copy available at: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2017222 intensity is increasing in product substitutability (e.g., Syverson (2004) and Goettler and Gordon (2014)).”
The walking dead? Zombie firms and productivity performance in OECD countries (2018, background): “While our baseline methodology focuses on the impact of zombie congestion on the growth opportunities of the average non-zombie firm, the concept of the average can be tenuous given that there is widespread heterogeneity in productivity performance within narrowly defined sectors (Syverson, 2004).”
Job Creation and Firm Dynamics in the United States (2012, background): “For example, Syverson (2004) finds that the interquartile range within narrow U.S. manufacturing industries is over 30 log points for measures of establishment-level total factor productivity.”