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We exploit detailed product- and firm-level data for the consumer goods industry and we document that the sales of individual products decline at a steady pace throughout most of their life cycles. This pattern is common across heterogenous types of products and is mostly due to declines in...
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In contrast to the usual approach taken in the literature, in which an Industry Life Cycle (ILC) is reproduced by aggregate functions, the model of this paper generates a self-organizing ILC. A general evolutionary agent-based simulation model is developed that can be adapted for specific...
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expected, but they face high exit hazards. At the upper tail, the oldest firms are older than the exponential would have …
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expected, but they face high exit hazards. At the upper tail, the oldest firms are older than the exponential would have …
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expected, but they face high exit hazards. At the upper tail, the oldest firms are older than the exponential would have …
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industry shakeout: a large number of firms exit within a short period. We present a simple timing game of entry and exit with …In many industries, the number of firms evolves non-monotonically over time. A phase of rapid entry is followed by an … particular, our model generates richer and more realistic dynamics than competitive models previously analyzed. The entry phase …
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It is frequently argued that policymakers should target high-tech firms, i.e., firms with high R&D intensity, because such firms are considered more innovative and therefore potential fast-growers. This argument relies on the assumption that the association among high-tech status, innovativeness...
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plant experiences productivity decline and approaches exit, average wage falls, but more slowly than it rises in the case of …
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expected, but they face high exit hazards. At the upper tail, the oldest firms are older than the exponential would have …
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