Arbeitspapier

Allocation and industry productivity: Accounting for firm turnover

Recent macroeconomic literature has stressed the importance of resource allocation between firms for aggregate productivity. An important issue, therefore, is how to measure allocative efficiency. We compare popular indicators of allocative efficiency, paying special attention to firm turnover. We first show how entering and exiting firms contribute to aggregate productivity and to the Olley-Pakes (OP) covariance component, which is currently the most popular measure of allocative efficiency. Our data cover essentially all firms and plants in the Finnish business sector. We then build a model of firm dynamics with endogenous turnover that is consistent with the main patterns of our empirical results and use it to test how well alternative indicators capture different allocation distortions. Our results demonstrate how and why commonly used indicators fail to capture certain distortions because of endogenous changes in firm turnover.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: ETLA Working Papers ; No. 11

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Macroeconomics: Production
Industrial Organization and Macroeconomics: Industrial Structure and Structural Change; Industrial Price Indices
Empirical Studies of Economic Growth; Aggregate Productivity; Cross-Country Output Convergence
Thema
productivity
firm dynamics
reallocation

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Maliranta, Mika
Määttänen, Niku
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
The Research Institute of the Finnish Economy (ETLA)
(wo)
Helsinki
(wann)
2013

Handle
Letzte Aktualisierung
10.03.2025, 11:46 MEZ

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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Maliranta, Mika
  • Määttänen, Niku
  • The Research Institute of the Finnish Economy (ETLA)

Entstanden

  • 2013

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