by both high entry and high exit rates. … entrepreneurs and theentry and exit rate of entrepreneurs simultaneously and consistently. We apply our unified approach tothe …

We use a dynamic oligopoly model of entry and exit with store-type differentiation to evaluate how entry regulations … regulations for the welfare of differentiated product industries with endogenous entry and exit. … demand, recover variable profits, and estimate entry costs and fixed costs by store type. Counterfactual policy experiments …

We use a dynamic oligopoly model of entry and exit to evaluate how entry regulations affect profitability and market … stores in Sweden, we find that the average entry costs for small and large stores are 10 and 18 percent lower, respectively …, in markets with liberal compared with restrictive regulations. Counterfactual simulations show that lower entry costs in …

decomposition is shown in a model featuring heterogeneous multiproduct firms, oligopolistic competition and free firm entry. When … firm-level productivity decreases while the dispersion rises up, firm product scope decreases and sums up to a lower number …

of entry and exit of U.S. manufacturing plants, in terms of employment and productivity, between 1972 and 1997. We show … how entry and exit patterns vary during the business cycle, and that the cyclical pattern of entry is very different from … the cyclical pattern of exit. Second, we build a general equilibrium model of plant entry, exit, and employment and …

This paper studies the impact of size on labor cost and productivity for Italian manufacturing firms. The distributions … of both labor cost and productivity display a wide support, even when disaggregated by sector of industrial activity …. Further, both labor cost and productivity, when considered alone, are growing with the size of the firm. We investigate this …

supply more products than smaller firms, implies that standard productivity measures are highly dependent on implicit demand … system assumptions and probably dramatically understate the relative productivity of the largest firms. Although most firms …