plant’s placement within the productivity distribution. Appreciations of the local currency expose domestic plants to more … plants are forced from the market, which truncates the lower end of the productivity distribution. For surviving plants …, appreciations can lead to a reduction in plant size, which, in the presence of scale economies, can lower productivity. We examine …

structural model that captures the effect of plantlevel productivity and real exchange rate fluctuations on plant entry and exit … unobserved potential entrant productivity, along with the cost of entry, are estimated in a second stage using the Method of … productivity, by altering the makeup of plants that populate the market. An appreciation of the local currency increases the level …

This paper examines the relationship between firm size and productivity. In contrast to previous studies, this paper …, the aggregate importance of the firm size-productivity relationship is gauged by calculating to what extent shifts in the … distribution of employment over firm size categories has affected Canadian aggregate productivity, and whether differences in the …