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We build a model of firm-level innovation, productivity growth and reallocation featuring endogenous entry and exit. A … provides a good fit to the dynamics of firm entry and exit, output and R&D, and its implied elasticities are in the ballpark of ….53 because it deters entry of new high-type firms. On the contrary, substantial improvements (of the order of 53 improvement in …
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Market structure is determined by the entry and exit decisions of individual producers. These decisions are driven by … dynamic, structural model of entry and exit in an oligopolistic industry and use it to quantify the determinants of market … structure and long-run firm values for two U.S. service industries, dentists and chiropractors. We find that entry costs faced …
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Competition among state and local governments to lure businesses has attracted considerable interest from economists, as well as legislators and policy makers. This paper quantifies the role of plant relocations in the geographic redistribution of manufacturing employment and examines the...
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We study how US branch-banking deregulations affected the entry and exit of firms in the non-financial sector using … how the entry rate, the distribution of entry sizes, and survival rates for firms responded to changes in banking … competition. We also distinguish the relative effect of the policy reforms on the entry of startups versus facility expansions by …
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This paper proposes that diversification taxes firms’ existing organizational systems by altering routines, formal contract structures and strategies. I test the proposition that organizational adjustment costs associated with diversification erode incumbent competitive advantage, using novel...
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This paper provides new evidence that estimates based on aggregate data will understate the true procyclicality of total factor productivity. I examine plant-level data and show that some industries experience countercyclical reallocations of output shares among firms at different points in the...
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