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incorporates endogenous product selection within firms. Our findings suggest that product switching contributes to a reallocation …
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We build a model of firm-level innovation, productivity growth and reallocation featuring endogenous entry and exit. A … provides a good fit to the dynamics of firm entry and exit, output and R&D, and its implied elasticities are in the ballpark of … key feature is the selection between high- and low-type firms, which differ in terms of their innovative capacity. We …
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By studying the effect of different patterns of demand in an evolutionary selection model this paper shows how product … differentiation reduces competitive selection pressure and thus increases the chances for the coexistence of firms. With the example …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011435189
firms shows that trade leads to between-firm reallocations and selection: it shifts employment towards firms with the best … attributes and forces marginal firms to exit. The model also illustrates the role of heterogeneity, and its various sources, in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012799723
This paper analyzes the productivity in the US rail industry for the period 1980 - 2006. I propose a value-added production framework to circumvent the problem of measurement error in one input. I find evidence showing that aggregate productivity gains can be attributed to returns to scale and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010314589
This paper analyzes the productivity in the US rail industry for the period 1980 - 2006. I propose a value-added production framework to circumvent the problem of measurement error in one input. I find evidence showing that aggregate productivity gains can be attributed to returns to scale and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009755723
By studying the effect of different patterns of demand in an evolutionary selection model this paper shows how product … differentiation reduces competitive selection pressure and thus increases the chances for the coexistence of firms. With the example …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011494852
firms shows that trade leads to between-firm reallocations and selection: it shifts employment towards firms with the best … attributes and forces marginal firms to exit. The model also illustrates the role of heterogeneity, and its various sources, in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012669016
This paper analyzes the productivity in the US rail industry for the period 1980 - 2006. I propose a value-added production framework to circumvent the problem of measurement error in one input. I find evidence showing that aggregate productivity gains can be attributed to returns to scale and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010956707
Why do some people become entrepreneurs (and others don't)? Why are firms so heterogeneous, and many firms so small? To start, the paper briefly documents evidence from the empirical literature that the relationship between entrepreneurship and education is Ushaped; that many entrepreneurs start a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010927913