investigates how changes in fiscal policy and market size affect rates of firm entry and exit. We find that reductions in fiscal … while the exit rate rises by a similar amount. Although small in comparison with average rates of entry and exit this … firm entry and survival. Using data covering broad manufacturing and service sectors in 17 countries this paper …

investigates how changes in fiscal policy and market size affect rates of firm entry and exit. We find that reductions in fiscal … while the exit rate rises by a similar amount. Although small in comparison with average rates of entry and exit this … firm entry and survival. Using data covering broad manufacturing and service sectors in 17 countries this paper …

differences are important in determining whether learning effects boost productivity after export market entry …There is extensive empirical evidence pointing to the exsistence of sunk costs to exporting. Only higher productivity … econometric analyses reports that exporters are more productive than non-exporters. But what happens to their productivity …

practices of others. That some firms converge relatively slowly to the productivity frontier suggests the existence of factors … that cause them to underinvest in their productivity. In this paper we explore how far higher rates of corporate taxation … affect firm productivity convergence by reducing the after tax returns to productivity enhancing investments for small firms …

practices of others. That some firms converge relatively slowly to the productivity frontier suggests the existence of factors … that cause them to under-invest in their productivity. In this paper we explore whether higher rates of corporate taxation … affect firm productivity convergence because they reduce the after tax returns to productivity enhancing investments for …

practices of others. That some firms converge relatively slowly to the productivity frontier suggests the existence of factors … that cause them to under-invest in their productivity. In this paper we explore whether higher rates of corporate taxation … affect firm productivity convergence because they reduce the after tax returns to productivity enhancing investments for …

Each year around 8 per cent of Swedish manufacturing firms leave an industry. Of the exit routes available, the least … importance of various firm and industry characteristics for the exit decision of Swedish firms from 1980-1996. From our analysis … the sector. Second the same characteristic can have quite different associations with the different types of exit …

This paper investigates why plants belonging to multi-plant firms are more likely to exit. Using Japanese plant data …-plant multinationals. As elsewhere in the literature these organisational forms are found to raise the probability of plant exit despite …

This paper investigates why multinational ownership is found to increase the probability that a plant will exit. It … likely to exit when plant, firm and industry characteristics are conditioned on. We find that the “footloose” effect is …