Overview
The productivity gap among firms within an industry, or firm heterogeneity, is becoming one of the most important questions in the fields of international economics, spatial economics, and industrial organization. It should be noted that the productivity growth of a country results from that of industries, which comes from that of firms. Therefore, to examine the source of productivity growth of the country, it is of the utmost importance to examine the productivity growth of firms.
This project examines the determinants of the productivity gap, using firm-level data. A number of studies have already examined the productivity growth of firms, using firm-level data in Japan. Building upon the previous studies, this project extends the focus to the market structure, employs a more sophisticated econometric methodology, and updates the analyses using the most recent version of the firm-level data.
April 19, 2011 - March 31, 2013
Major Research Results
2013
RIETI Discussion Papers
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13-E-066
"Make or Buy, and/or Cooperate? The Property Rights Approach to Auto Parts Procurement in Japan" (TAKEDA Yosuke and UCHIDA Ichihiro)
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13-E-047
"The Effect of Moving to a Territorial Tax System on Profit Repatriations: Evidence from Japan" (HASEGAWA Makoto and KIYOTA Kozo)
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13-E-023
"Trade Adjustments to Exchange Rate Changes by Japanese Manufacturing MNEs: Intra-firm and arm's length transactions" (ANDO Mitsuyo and KIMURA Fukunari)
2012
RIETI Discussion Papers
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13-E-020
"Heterogeneous Impact of Trade Liberalization on Vertical FDI: Evidence from Japanese firm-level data" (HAYAKAWA Kazunobu and MATSUURA Toshiyuki)
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13-E-019
"Performance of Newly Listed Firms: Evidence from Japanese firm and venture capital data" (MIYAKAWA Daisuke and TAKIZAWA Miho)
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13-E-011
"International Productivity Gaps and the Export Status of Firms: Evidence from France and Japan" (Flora BELLONE, KIYOTA Kozo, MATSUURA Toshiyuki, Patrick MUSSO and Lionel NESTA)
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12-E-047
"International Production Networks and Domestic Operations of Japanese Manufacturing Firms: Normal periods and the Global Financial Crisis" (ANDO Mitsuyo and KIMURA Fukunari)
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12-E-020
"Product and Labor Market Imperfections and Scale Economies: Micro-evidence on France, Japan and the Netherlands" (Sabien DOBBELAERE, KIYOTA Kozo and Jacques MAIRESSE)
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12-J-022
"Determinants of Headquarters Location Choices and Productivity Sorting: Evidence from Japanese firm-level data" (MATSUURA Toshiyuki)
