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Three essays on estimation and determinants of productivity.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Three essays on estimation and determinants of productivity./
Author:	Bilgic-Alpaslan, Idil.
Description:	167 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 77-01(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International77-01A(E).
Subject:	Economic theory. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3721590
ISBN:	9781339032283

Three essays on estimation and determinants of productivity.
Bilgic-Alpaslan, Idil.

Three essays on estimation and determinants of productivity. - 167 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 77-01(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Brandeis University, International Business School, 2015.

This dissertation consists of three essays analyzing productivity from different perspectives. Productivity enhacement at aggregate level is the result of productivity enhancements at micro level. In order to investigate this transitivity, thesis starts with a macroeconomic approach and continues with micro-level analyses.

ISBN: 9781339032283Subjects--Topical Terms:

1556984
Economic theory.

Three essays on estimation and determinants of productivity.
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502 $a Thesis (Ph.D.)--Brandeis University, International Business School, 2015.
520 $a This dissertation consists of three essays analyzing productivity from different perspectives. Productivity enhacement at aggregate level is the result of productivity enhancements at micro level. In order to investigate this transitivity, thesis starts with a macroeconomic approach and continues with micro-level analyses.
520 $a First chapter investigates contributions of production factors and total factor productivity (TFP) to growth in developed and emerging countries. I use both growth accounting and regression based models to evaluate the role of TFP and assess the nature of the production function. I improve models by adjusting inputs for quality and find that correcting measurement errors in inputs and output improves results significantly. Results indicate that production function in developed countries exhibits constant returns to scale and growth mainly originates from human capital and technological progress. Growth accounting models imply a higher role for TFP in emerging countries but all of growth can be explained by inputs if regression based models are employed. Correcting for measurement errors in output and inputs improves the results for emerging countries, too. The results show that the main drivers of growth in these countries are inputs, in favor of the accumulation hypothesis.
520 $a Second chapter investigates the link between export sophistication and growth, through productivity diffusion. To do so, a model with control and interaction terms is estimated using data from a collection of resources. I find that higher initial levels of export sophistication increase the income growth rate in developed countries, but not in emerging ones. Higher savings ratio, more political stability and lower fertility rate increase growth rate in both sets of countries. For developed countries, protection of property rights is also an important determinant of growth. Foreign direct investment is found to be an important driver of growth in emerging countries but as these countries increase their export sophistication, effect of FDI on income growth declines. Similar relations for improved human capital stock and openness are also revealed. This means that emerging countries benefit from improvements in factor accumulation initially but as export sophistication rises in a country, effect of these improvements decline since marginal returns on these factors decline over time.
520 $a In the third chapter, I employ a bottom-up approach and use firm level data to analyze within country TFP convergence in emerging economies. I first estimate firm level TFP for each country and find that production function exhibits constant returns to scale property in most emerging markets, with some exceptions. Using predicted values of firm level TFPs as dependent variable, I next investigate its determinants and find that receiving FDI, improving human capital and engaging in global integration increase TFP. These findings are in line with the findings of second chapter. Next, I investigate whether there is any evidence of productivity convergence between exporters and nonexporters and find supporting evidence for four countries. In the last step, I construct industry level TFPs and show that industries which increase their shares in export basket experienced a higher TFP growth over time.
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