A semi-parametric approach is used to estimate firm propensity to exit. The unobserved individual productivity of a … firm is first estimated using the Ackerberg et al. (2006) approach and then introduced as a determinant of firm exit in … conjunction with other variables that may serve as barriers to exit, including the firm's level of sunk costs and the industry …

expected return on the election results will be higher for electors who have high exit costs. According to the theory of …

determination of the number of producers and products over the business cycle. Economic expansions induce higher entry rates by … prospective entrants subject to irreversible investment costs. The sluggish response of the number of producers (due to sunk entry … decisions, producer entry, and the allocation of labor across sectors. The model performs at least as well as the benchmark real …

of experience depends on the entrant's current customer base and facility-based entry is a long-term possibility, setting …

threshold of productivity. We examine mobility in two dimensions: from firm to firm (inter-firm) and from one technical field to …. In particular we show that: (1) as predicted by evolutionary theory, inventor productivity is a positive determinant of … invention value, (2) inter-firm mobility is a consistently positive determinant of productivity and (3) technological mobility …

IC matters for firm productivity through the quality of infrastructure, the experience and education of the labor force …

IC matters for firm productivity through the quality of infrastructure, the experience and education of the labor force …

of both wages and productivity are endogenous. We estimate this model using French data. Numerical simulations show that … wage when they are spread over a large range of wages in order to avoid specialization in low productivity jobs. …

This documents aims at bridging productivity measurement and weak sustainability in a specific data envelopment …. Adjustment net saving is seen as a sustainability indicator and then the productivity indicator computed can be understood as a … sustainability productivity index. …