productivity, by altering the makeup of plants that populate the market. An appreciation of the local currency increases the level … structural model that captures the effect of plantlevel productivity and real exchange rate fluctuations on plant entry and exit … decisions in the Canadian agricultural implements industry, and how this, in turn, affects aggregate productivity. The model …

We demonstrate the power of recently redeveloped productivity micro-data to produce a range of meaningful competition … groups. Estimating the relationship between competition and productivity within these groups provides some suggestive results …-to-exit based on productivity. Overall, the limited evidence we find for a direct relationship between competition and productivity …

investigated with productivity levels as a proxy for technological performance and productivity changes as proxy for innovative …

This paper proposes a dynamic structural model with endogenous productivity to evaluate the impact of R&D on … productivity when firms decide how much to invest; this decision depends on the competitive pressure that they face. Using data … least 0.7 to 2.5 times the actual R&D investment for a firm at the median of the productivity growth and 2 to 4 times for a …

This paper investigates the extent to which productivity growth is the result of firm turnover as output is shifted … continuing firms. This paper proposes a method for measuring the impact of firm turnover on productivity growth and shows that … associated with competition is the main source of aggregate labour productivity growth in Canadian manufacturing industries …