Download or read book On Measuring the Contribution of Entering and Exiting Firms to Aggregate Productivity Growth written by W. Erwin Diewert and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 29 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The problem of assessing the impact of firm entry and exit on aggregate productivity growth is addressed. The proposed method overcomes some problems with currently proposed methods. The paper also addresses some of the problems involved in aggregating outputs and inputs when firms enter and exit so that the one output and one input aggregate productivity decompositions can be applied. It turns out that multilateral index number theory is useful in performing the aggregation of many outputs (inputs) into a single output (input).