Weng, Tengying; Vukina, Tomislav; Zheng, Xiaoyong - In: Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy 37 (2015) 1, pp. 151-175
We study the productivity-survival link in the U.S. poultry processing industry using longitudinal data constructed from 5 censuses of manufactures between 1987 and 2007. First, we study the effects of physical productivity and demand-specific factors on plant survival and ownership change....