Replication data for: Selection and Market Reallocation: Productivity Gains from Multinational Production
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Project Citation:
Alfaro, Laura, and Chen, Maggie X. Replication data for: Selection and Market Reallocation: Productivity Gains from Multinational Production. Nashville, TN: American Economic Association [publisher], 2018. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2019-10-13. https://doi.org/10.3886/E114669V1
Project Description
Summary:
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Assessing productivity gains from multinational production has been a vital topic of economic research and policy debate. Positive productivity gains are often attributed to productivity spillovers; however, an
alternative, much less emphasized channel is selection and market reallocation, whereby competition leads to factor and revenue reallocation within and between domestic firms and exits of the least productive
firms. We investigate the roles of these different mechanisms in determining aggregate-productivity gains using a unifying framework that explores the mechanisms' distinct predictions on the distributions of
domestic firms: within-firm productivity improvement shifts rightward or reshapes the productivity distribution, while selection and market reallocation move the revenue and employment distributions leftward
and raise left truncations. Using a rich cross-country firm-level panel dataset, we find significant evidence of both mechanisms and effects of competition in product, technology, and labor space. However,
selection and market reallocation account for the majority of aggregate-productivity gains, suggesting ignoring this channel could lead to substantial bias in understanding the nature of productivity gains from
multinational production.
Scope of Project
JEL Classification:
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D22 Firm Behavior: Empirical Analysis
D24 Production; Cost; Capital; Capital, Total Factor, and Multifactor Productivity; Capacity
F14 Empirical Studies of Trade
F23 Multinational Firms; International Business
G32 Financing Policy; Financial Risk and Risk Management; Capital and Ownership Structure; Value of Firms; Goodwill
O47 Empirical Studies of Economic Growth; Aggregate Productivity; Cross-Country Output Convergence
D22 Firm Behavior: Empirical Analysis
D24 Production; Cost; Capital; Capital, Total Factor, and Multifactor Productivity; Capacity
F14 Empirical Studies of Trade
F23 Multinational Firms; International Business
G32 Financing Policy; Financial Risk and Risk Management; Capital and Ownership Structure; Value of Firms; Goodwill
O47 Empirical Studies of Economic Growth; Aggregate Productivity; Cross-Country Output Convergence
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