This article explores the dynamics of market selection by investigating of the relationships linking productivity … that productivity variations, rather than relative levels, are the dominant productivity-related determinant of firm growth …

the dynamics of entry-exit and market shares and, collectively, the productivity and the size distributions and their … stylised facts, including ample heterogeneity in productivity distributions, persistent market turbulence and fat …

Italy ranked last in terms of manufacturing productivity growth according to OECD estimates over the last decade with a …-decile differences in productivity have been increasing. Further, heterogeneous firms' characteristics (i.e. export activity and … productivity. One phenomenon that we observe is what we call a tendency toward 'neo-dualism' involving the co-existence of a small …