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 …

productivity, by altering the makeup of plants that populate the market. An appreciation of the local currency increases the level … structural model that captures the effect of plantlevel productivity and real exchange rate fluctuations on plant entry and exit … decisions in the Canadian agricultural implements industry, and how this, in turn, affects aggregate productivity. The model …

example, can make the effect of a traded-goods productivity improvement on the real exchange rate negative or positive, as … on the relationship between productivity and the real exchange rate. -- Exchange rates ; Productivity …