effect is tightly related to the negative initial productivity effect of entry. We also find some evidence that productivity …This paper studies how firms contribute to the productivity growth of an industry over their lifecycle. We present a … decomposition method that allows us to condition the components of productivity growth on the age of production units. We find …

This study examines how deregulation affects product market competition and thereby productivity. Productivity grows … to renounce high rents and cut costs, which increases static efficiency. However, static efficiency boosts productivity … increases incentives to innovate, and secondly, it accelerates creative destruction. Since regulations impede the free entry of …

This study analyses the dynamics of productivity growth at the micro level in Finnish manufacturing industries. It is … shown that productivity-enhancing restructuring (so-called “creative destruction”) has played a crucial role especially … important for economic development. An increase in productivity divergenceseems to precede increases in creative destruction …