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The importance of frontier firms in total factor productivity in New Zealand, 2001–2016

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العنوان: The importance of frontier firms in total factor productivity in New Zealand, 2001–2016
المؤلفون: R. I. D. Harris
المصدر: Taylor & Francis Journals, New Zealand Economic Papers. 54(3):285-311
سنة النشر: 2020
الوصف: Using firm-level panel data and estimating production functions for 37 industries, covering the 2001–16 period, this paper finds little evidence of major changes in frontier TFP over 2001–16, and limited evidence of catching-up; that is, it seems very likely that New Zealand firms at the national frontier are not keeping pace with global frontier firms. The most important conclusion from this study is that while there is some evidence of a failure of productivity-enhancing technologies to diffuse from firms operating at the national productivity frontier, the major problem is failure of productivity-enhancing technologies to diffuse from firms operating at the global productivity frontier. New Zealand’s major problem is that frontier firms are underperforming because of their characteristics (e.g. small and lacking international connections) while productivity is overall adversely affected by a lack of competition, which generally creates barriers to exiting and insufficient reallocation of market shares from lower- to higher-productivity firms.
نوع الوثيقة: redif-article
اللغة: English
DOI: 10.1080/00779954.2020.180
الإتاحة: https://ideas.repec.org/a/taf/nzecpp/v54y2020i3p285-311.html
رقم الأكسشن: edsrep.a.taf.nzecpp.v54y2020i3p285.311
قاعدة البيانات: RePEc
الوصف
DOI:10.1080/00779954.2020.180