We examine the entry and exit process in the Finnish manufacturing industry. Microeconomic explanations of entry and …. The results show that scale economies form a significant entry barrier, but the evidence on their role as an exit barrier …. Industry growth has a positive influence on entry and a negative influence on exit, but also variables describing the general …

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 ….5% because it deters entry of new high-type firms. On the contrary, substantial improvements (of the order of 5% improvement in …

Using data from US labour market areas, we quantify empirical associations between entry by small firms and a vector of …. Distinct and robust associations are found for net and gross rates of entry. These results suggest a richer variety of effects … of entry than previously documented, and point to several potential tradeoffs associated with entry by small firms. …