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This paper estimates a dynamic, structural model of entry and exit in an oligopolistic industry and uses it to quantify …. Entry costs faced by potential entrants, fixed costs faced by incumbent producers, and the toughness of short-run price … the dentist industry allow the entry cost to differ for geographic markets that were designated as Health Professional …
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We use the Longitudinal Business Database to examine the impact of state-level paid parental leave laws in California, New Jersey, and Rhode Island on firms. Our main estimation strategy uses multi-unit firms and compares within-firm changes in outcomes for establishments in treated and...
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The expansion of enterprise level datasets has led to the emergence of a large body of literature on patterns of employment and job dynamics across different enterprise types. In the context of India, where MSMEs have been traditionally supported and encouraged by different policy initiatives to...
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Using a micro-level dataset of wind turbine installations in Denmark and Germany, we estimate a structural oligopoly model with cross-border trade and heterogeneous firms. Our approach separately identifies border-related from distance-related variable costs and bounds the fixed cost of...
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In this paper we propose a novel method for the price-cost markup estimation and study the relationship between export intensity and the markup. We impose much less restrictive identifying assumptions on technology and adjustment frictions compared to previous studies and use Swedish firm-level...
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original beverage. Using the Hirschman's (1970) model of Exit, Voice, and Loyalty, we argue that the public outcry that …
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endogeneity of market entry decisions. Using a detailed monthly firm-level panel data for all inspection firms in Sweden, we find …
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noninvesting firms. In each period, one investor can acquire a small firm, the other investor decides about market entry. After …
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India's dramatic trade liberalization starting from 1991 on market efficiency and productivity growth using Indian … from the shrinking of market size experienced no change or falling total factor productivity (TFP) growth; whereas leather …
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unit labor costs - average wages relative to productivity - for two-digit manufacturing sectors across a wide range of …. Further, we find that for Africa, the level and growth of labor productivity have a quantitatively stronger and more robust …
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