This paper estimates a dynamic, structural model of entry and exit in an oligopolistic industry and uses it to quantify …. Entry costs faced by potential entrants, fixed costs faced by incumbent producers, and the toughness of short-run price … the dentist industry allow the entry cost to differ for geographic markets that were designated as Health Professional …

This paper estimates a dynamic, structural model of entry and exit in an oligopolistic industry and uses it to quantify …. Entry costs faced by potential entrants, fixed costs faced by incumbent producers, and the toughness of short-run price … the dentist industry allow the entry cost to differ for geographic markets that were designated as Health Professional …

This paper documents the cyclical patterns of business entry and exit dynamism in the US using the Business Dynamic … procyclical while the exit margin shows little cyclicality. In addition to the entry and exit rates, the numbers and relative … Statistics (BDS) dataset. The main finding is that, for both firms and establishments, the entry margin is significantly …

The paper investigates the construction of a low cost airline network by analyzing JetBlue Airways' entry decisions … also affected entry positively. For non-stop entry into a route that has not been served on a non-stop basis before, our … network carriers. Non-stop entry into existing non-stop markets, however, shows that JetBlue concentrated on longer …

important gap in most empirical studies of establishment-level productivity is the limited information about workers …' characteristics and their tasks. Skill-adjusted labor input measures have been shown to be important for aggregate productivity …-access establishment-level productivity dataset created by the BLS-Census Bureau Collaborative Micro-productivity Project. We take a first …

productivity. We maintain, however, that the dramatic acceleration of imports from developing countries has imparted a significant … manufacturing productivity and value added, we implement the bias correction developed by Diewert and Nakamura (2009) to the input … offshoring. We find that from 1997 to 2007 average annual multifactor productivity growth in manufacturing was overstated by 0 …