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Publications of Johannes Van Biesebroeck
2017
Loren Brandt, Johannes Van Biesebroeck, Luhang Wang, Yifan Zhang, "WTO Accession and Performance of Chinese Manufacturing Firms", American Economic Review 107 (9) (2017), 2784–2820.
2012
Loren Brandt, Johannes Van Biesebroeck, Yifan Zhang, "Creative Accounting or Creative Destruction: Firm Level Productivity Growth in Chinese Manufacturing", Journal of Development Economics 97 (2) (2012), 339–351.
2009
Johannes Van Biesebroeck, "Wages and Productivity Premiums in sub-Saharan Africa", in The Analysis of Firms and Employees (edited by Julia Lane and Stefan Bender), NBER - University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2009, 345–372.
2008
Timothy Sturgeon, Johannes Van Biesebroeck, Gary Gereffi, "Value Chains, Networks, and Clusters: Reframing the Global Automotive Industry", Journal of Economic Geography 8 (3) (2008), 297–321.
Johannes Van Biesebroeck, "Aggregating and Decomposing Productivity", Review of Business and Economics 53 (2) (2008), 112–146.
Johannes Van Biesebroeck, "The Sensitivity of Productivity Estimates: Revisiting Three Important Debates", Journal of Business and Economic Statistics 26 (3) (2008), 311–328.
2007
Johannes Van Biesebroeck, "Complementarities in Automobile Production", Journal of Applied Econometrics 22 (7) (2007), 1315–1345.
Johannes Van Biesebroeck, "Robustness of Productivity Estimates", Journal of Industrial Economics 55 (3) (2007), 529–569.
Johannes Van Biesebroeck, "The Canadian Automotive Market", DFAIT annual research report (2007), 187–340. (Freely available.)
Johannes Van Biesebroeck, "The Cost of Flexibility", Assembly Automation 27 (1) (2007), 55–64. (Freely available.)
2006
Giovanni Facchini, Johannes Van Biesebroeck, Gerald Willmann, "Protection for Sale with Imperfect Rent Capturing", Canadian Journal of Economics 39 (3) (2006), 845–873. (Freely available.)
2005
Johannes Van Biesebroeck, "Exporting Raises Productivity in Sub-Saharan African Manufacturing Firms", Journal of International Economics 67 (2) (2005), 373–391. (Freely available.)
Johannes Van Biesebroeck, "Plant Size Matters: Size and Productivity Distribution in African Manufacturing Firms", Economic Development and Cultural Change 53 (3) (2005), 545–83. (Freely available.)
2003
Johannes Van Biesebroeck, "Productivity Dynamics with Technology Choice: An Application to Automobile Assembly", Review of Economic Studies 70 (1) (2003), 167–198. (Freely available.)
2002
Johannes Van Biesebroeck, "The Effect of Technology Choice on Automobile Assembly Plant Productivity", Economic and Social Review 33 (1) (2002), 65–73.