The Life-Cycle Growth of Plants: The Role of Productivity, Demand and Wedges
Marcela Eslava, John Haltiwanger, Nicolas Urdaneta
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Review of Economic Studies
259-300
January
2024
Abstract
What determines the distribution of establishments in terms of size and life-cycle growth? How are those determinants related to aggregate productivity? We provide novel answers by developing a framework that uses price and quantity information on establishments’ outputs and inputs to jointly estimate the demand and production parameters, and subsequently, establishments’ quality-adjusted productivity, deriving both micro-level and aggregate implications.