Survey forecasts are prone to entry and exit of forecasters as well as forecasters not contributing every period …

evaluations. Up to now, very little is known empirically about how mergers affect entry and exit, and the resulting number of …The U.S. and EU Merger Guidelines strongly emphasize the relevance of the "ease of entry" argument in merger … dominated mergers. Interestingly, we also find that mergers foreclose potential entry in other product markets and reduce the …

We study the effect of entry on the price distribution in the German retail gasoline market. Exploiting more than 700 … entries over five years in an event study design, we find that entry causes a persistent first-order stochastic shift in the … to 12% of stations' gross margins. Consumers with easy access to information on prices gain the most from entry. The …

change in the trend of aggregate labor share in the manufacturing sector, with only a small role for exit of high …

Using a unique plant-level dataset we examine total factor productivity (TFP) growth and its components, related to …

, cloud usage is expected to increase the productivity of firms, as it allows them to quickly customize the IT they require to … IT investment in any sectors, it does significantly improve labor productivity for firms in manufacturing and in …

This paper introduces dynamics in the R&D to innovation and innovation to productivity relationships, which have mostly … conditional mean of labor productivity: through an observed binary indicator, an observed intensity variable or through the … Community Innovation Survey. The results provide evidence of robust unidirectional causality from innovation to productivity and …

evidence for sequential sorting into different export-modes according to firm productivity: i) only the most productive firms …