The paper investigates the survival of newly created small and medium enterprises in Brazilian manufacturing taking as …. Salient results include the positive role played by firm size, industry size and industry growth on survival and yet the …

at the 8-digit product level from 1995 to 2005. I find that survival probabilities are affected by exporter …

chance of survival than those in second and third class. British passengers were more likely to perish than members of other …

The paper investigates survival patterns of Brazilian franchising firms during the 1994-1999 period. First, at a more … descriptive level one considered the (percentage) survival of newly created franchisors in the following years. The evidence … indicated a drastic decay in survival after only a few years and contrasts with the higher survival of firms in the franchising …

concepts. Then we examine existence of competitive equilibria with free exit and study whether maximal individual power is …

We estimate by means of indirect inference a structural economic model where firms’ exit and investment decisions are … the solution to a discrete-continuous dynamic programming problem. In the model the exit probability depends on the …-2012, and find that both increased short-run profitability and a higher capital stock lowers the exit probability - this effect …

’ inflation aversion and exit costs. …

bilateral measure of market access to compare tariffs applied in 1996 and 2006, which includes the timing of the Uruguay Round … and episodes of bilateral liberalization. Our econometric estimations show that the reduced tariffs imposed on emerging … countries have contributed to growth in their exports of differentiated goods at the intensive margin; they have not affected …