Acemoglu, Daron; Akcigit, Ufuk; Bloom, Nicholas; Kerr, … - Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania - 2013
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. 0n the contrary, substantial improvements (of the order of 5% improvement in …