in this reaserch by comparing some of the recent litreture on indentification production function, we estimate total factor productivity. we focus on parametric methods, especially blundell and bond (2000), ollay and pakes (1996), levinsohn and petrin (2003) and ols.using panel data on plant-level of 4-digits isic in iran from 1380 to 1390. we choose levinsohn and petrin (2003) as the most appr...

The standard firm heterogeneity model of FDI considers the case whole ownership foreign affiliates. However, there exist many partially-owned This paper builds a based on Helpman et al. (2004) to allow various structures and posits some testable hypotheses relationship between productivity shares/structures. empirical part corroborates these hypotheses, showing that high firms tend have higher ...

extended abstract 1. introduction nowadays, one of the challenging issues of agriculture is the ownership problem and impact of the inheritance system on its procedure, performance and productivity. dividing agricultural lands between heirs led to fragmentation and smallness of the lands and emerging problems such as loss of agricultural water, lack of efficient use of agricultural machinery, r...

The performance of Indian railways in the nineteenth century provides a great context to study the effects of state ownership on productivity and other aspects of operations. We rely on a key feature of the institutional background whereby the Government of India purchased a majority ownership stake in private railways at predetermined dates set by contracts negotiated decades before the compan...

A number of studies have found that foreign direct investment (FDI) can have positive impacts on productivity. However, while FDI has clearly positive impacts on technology transfers, its effects on resource use within firms is less clear and, in principle, efficiency losses might offset some of the productivity gains associated with improved technologies. In this paper, we study the impacts of...