pattern (varieties and markets) of existing firms in combination with entry/exit of firms. The empirical results are …This paper develops a framework to appreciate the observed heterogeneity of firm size distributions and the entry and … exit of products and firms associated with it. It is based on a model where new products are introduced by innovating firms …

regional determinants of entry and exit considering these findings. The empirical analysis is performed using data on Swedish … firm entry and exit rates for 1997-2001. It is shown that on average about 0.5 to 2.7 percent of the regional variation in … entry and exit rates remains to be explained, after controlling for differences in industrial structure, but that there is …

This paper investigates the dynamics of firm entry and exit with a focus on differences between industrial sectors. The … paper discusses how entry and exit rates in industrial sectors are affected by previous exit and entry rates. Economic … theory presents two different approaches to how entry and exit of firms are interrelated to each other, the multiplier effect …

significant impact on both entry of new firms and on firm exit. For the primary sector and the manufacturing sector this impact is … there is a strong negative impact on firm entry in all sectors. This is in line with what one could expect as there are …

firm to do more things within the firm. In addition, it is ex¬pected that there is a relationship between entry rate and …

This paper serves as another complementary link in a chain of a rather limited number of investigations in the R&D-innovation-productivity … relationship within service industries. Innovation has been found to be a major contributor to productivity growth in manufacturing … evidence that the reported weak rate of productivity growth in knowledge intensive services can be explained by a low …

This paper investigates whether domestic firms’ productivity is an increasing function of imports from the most … causality going from imports to productivity. We also show that productivity is increasing in the G7-fraction of total imports …. Our results highlight the importance of import flows from R&D and knowledge intensive economies for productivity and are …

Using a unique plant-level dataset we examine green productivity growth in Sweden’s heavily regulated pulp and paper …-Luenberger productivity index which accounts for air and water pollutants as undesirable outputs. Some of our key findings are: (1) regulation …