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Firm Growth and Productivity Growth: Evidence from a Panel VAR
- Autor(in)
- Erschienen
- 18. Dezember 2007
- Nummer des Discussion-Papers
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2007-103
- Schlagwort(e)
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Firm Growth
Industrial Dynamics
Non-parametric frontier analysis
Panel VAR
Productivity Growth
- Zusammenfsg.
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This paper offers new insights into the processes of firm growth by applying a reduced-form vector autoregression (VAR) model to longitudinal panel data on French manufacturing firms. We observe the co-evolution of key variables such as growth of employment, sales, and gross operating surplus, as well as growth of multifactor productivity. It seems that employment growth is negatively associated with subsequent growth of productivity. This latter result, however, is sensitive to our choice of productivity indicator, i.e. multifactor productivity or labour productivity.
- article pub. typess JER
- Research article
- article languages JER
- Englisch
- article research fields JER
- economics
- JEL-Classification for JER
- L25 - Firm Performance: Size, Diversification, and Scope ; L20 - General