Back on the Rails: Competition and Productivity in State-Owned Industry

Sanghamitra Das, K. Krishna, Sergey Lychagin, R. Somanathan
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We use a proprietary data set on the floor-level operations at the Bhilai Rail and Structural Mill in India to understand the determinants of changes in plant productivity in 2000-2003. During this period there was a 35 percent increase in output with minimal changes in factors of production, but sizable reductions in production delays. We model interruptions to the production process and find that a large part of these reductions are attributable to training. Our results suggest that specific knowledge-enhancing investments can have very high returns, and that the threat of competition provides powerful incentives to undertake such investments.
重回正轨:国有企业的竞争与生产率
我们使用了印度比莱铁路和结构厂车间操作的专有数据集,以了解2000-2003年工厂生产率变化的决定因素。在此期间,在生产要素变化很小的情况下,产量增加了35%,但生产延误却大幅减少。我们对生产过程的中断进行了建模,发现这些减少的很大一部分可归因于培训。我们的研究结果表明,特定的知识增强投资可以产生非常高的回报,而竞争的威胁为进行此类投资提供了强大的激励。
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