Within-Firm Productivity Dispersion: Estimates and Implications

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Orr, Scott
• 署名单位: University of British Columbia
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF POLITICAL ECONOMY
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0022-3808
• DOI: 10.1086/720465
• 发表日期: 2022
• 页码: 2771-2828
• 关键词: multiproduct firms; prices; TRADE; identification; reallocation; COMPETITION; scale; performance; EFFICIENCY; turnover

摘要

This paper develops a flexible recipe for identifying unobserved input allocations, as well as quantity- and revenue-based total factor productivity (TFP) across product lines, for multiproduct producers, using demand- and supply-side information. Applying variants of this recipe to a panel of plants manufacturing machinery in India from 2000-2007 yields sizable within-plant TFP differences. Removing an average plant's lowest-performing product increases the unweighted average of plant-level revenue-based productivity by 10%-65%. A 1 standard deviation decline in product-level revenue-based TFP generates around a 6 percentage point increase in the probability of dropping that product.