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Massimo Del Gatto

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Unbundling technology adoption and tfp at the firm level. Do intangibles matter?

2012

We use a panel of European firms to investigate the relationship between intangible assets and productivity. We distinguish between total factor productivity (tfp) and technology adoption, whereas standard estimations consider only a notion of productivity that conflates the two effects. Although we are unable to address simultaneity, we allow for the existence of multiple technologies within sectors through a mixture model approach. We find that intangible assets have nonnegligible effects that both push firms toward better technologies (technology adoption effects) and allow for more efficient exploitation of a given technology (tfp effects).

Economics and Econometricintangible assetsSimultaneityfirm selectionTFP Intangible Assets Heterogeneity Firm Selection Technology Adoption Mixture Modelstechnology adoptionjel:D24jel:F12Strategy and Management1409 Tourism Leisure and Hospitality ManagementTFPjel:C29TFP intangible assets firm heterogeneity firm selection technology adoption mixture modelsfirm heterogeneityManagement of Technology and Innovationmixture models;tfp;intangible assets;firm heterogeneity;firm selection;technology adoptionEconomicsjel:O32Business Management and Accounting (all)Unbundlingmixture modelsSettore SECS-P/01 - Economia PoliticaProductivityTotal factor productivityIndustrial organization
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Labor productivity and firm-level TFP with technology-specific production functions

2020

Abstract We investigate the technological dimension of productivity, presenting an empirical methodology based on mixture models to disentangle the labor productivity differences associated with the firm's choice of technology (BTFP) and those related to the firm's ability to exploit the adopted technology (WTFP). The estimation endogenously determines the number of technologies (in the sector) and degree of technology sharing across firms (i.e., for each firm, the probability of using a given technology). By using comparable data for about 35,000 firms worldwide distributed across 22 (two-digit) sectors, we show BTFP to be at least as important as WTFP in explaining the labor productivity …

EstimationEconomics and EconometricsSimultaneityExploit05 social sciencesTFPTFP; Technology adoption; Production function estimation; Mixture modelsProduction function estimation0502 economics and businessEconomicsProduction (economics)Statistical dispersion050207 economicsMixture modelsTotal factor productivityProductivityIndustrial organization050205 econometrics Technology adoption
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Is the productivity premium of internationalized firms technology-driven?

2020

AbstractWe ask whether the productivity advantage of internationalized firms documented by the international trade literature can be interpreted most accurately in terms of proximity to the “technological frontier”. We answer in the affirmative using a methodology (based on mixture models) of unbundling technology and total factor productivity (TFP) by estimating “technology-specific” production function parameters. Exploiting detailed data provided by the EFIGE database (a sample of firms distributed across Austria, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Spain, and the UK), we find technology gaps (with respect to the frontier) more than three times larger than the TFP gaps on average. We also f…

Statistics and ProbabilityEconomics and EconometricsHeterogenous firm Productivity premium Selection effect Technology TFP Trade modelTechnologyCompetitor analysisForeign direct investmentHeterogenous firm · Productivity premium · Selection effect · Technology · TFP · Trade modelSelection effectCompetition (economics)TFPMathematics (miscellaneous)Heterogenous firmProductivity premiumProduction (economics)media_common.cataloged_instanceTrade modelBusinessUnbundlingEuropean unionSettore SECS-P/01 - Economia PoliticaProductivityTotal factor productivitySocial Sciences (miscellaneous)Industrial organizationmedia_common
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Unbundling Technology Adoption andtfpat the Firm Level: Do Intangibles Matter?

2015

We use a panel of European firms to investigate the relationship between intangible assets and productivity. We distinguish between total factor productivity (tfp) and technology adoption, whereas standard estimations consider only a notion of productivity that conflates the two effects. Although we are unable to address simultaneity, we allow for the existence of multiple technologies within sectors through a mixture model approach. We find that intangible assets have nonnegligible effects that both push firms toward better technologies (technology adoption effects) and allow for more efficient exploitation of a given technology (tfp effects).

Economics and EconometricsSimultaneitybusiness.industryManagement of Technology and InnovationStrategy and ManagementEconomicsInternational tradeUnbundlingbusinessGeneral Business Management and AccountingProductivityTotal factor productivityIndustrial organizationJournal of Economics & Management Strategy
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Labor Productivity Growth: Disentangling Technology and Capital Accumulation

2014

We adopt a counterfactual approach to decompose labor productivity growth into growth of Technological Productivity (TEP), growth of the capital-labor ratio and growth of Total Factor Productivity (TFP). We bring the decomposition to the data using international countrysectoral information spanning from the 1960s to the 2000s and a nonparametric generalized kernel method, which enables us to estimate the production function allowing for heterogeneity across all relevant dimensions: countries, sectors and time. As well as documenting substantial heterogeneity across countries and sectors, we nd average TEP to account for about 44% of labor productivity growth and TEP gaps with respect to the…

Counterfactual thinkingEconomics and EconometricsPublic economics05 social sciencesConvergence (economics)Oecd countriesjel:C14jel:D24Aggregate productivityjel:O41Capital accumulationTFP Aggregate productivity Technology Nonparametric estimation Convergence0502 economics and businessEconometricsEconomics050207 economicsjel:O47Settore SECS-P/01 - Economia PoliticaProductivityTotal factor productivity050205 econometrics Under Review [TFP Aggregate Productivity Technology Nonparametric Estimation Convergence Publication Status]
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Skill Biased Technical Change and Misallocation: A Unified Framework

2019

Due to strict reliance on competitive labor markets, standard approaches which measure skill biased technical change (SBTC) conflate labor market distortions which prevent firms from choosing the efficient ratio between skilled and unskilled labor and `true' SBTC. This contrasts with recent evidence on decoupling between wages and productivity. To overcome this limitation, we present a unified framework to estimate SBTC which accounts for factor accumulation (FA) effects, and quantifies the discrepancy (i.e., relative misallocation) between the wage ratio (skilled to unskilled) and the marginal rate of technical substitution (MRTS). The suggested methodology takes advantage of recent develo…

Marginal rate of technical substitutionBargaining powermedia_common.quotation_subjectMarginal productWageEconometricsEconomicsEstimation methodsProductivityTechnical changemedia_commonSSRN Electronic Journal
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