time effects. All countries display a massive reallocation of resources, with the entry and exit of many firms in all … market contestability. There are also large differences across groups of countries. While entry and exit rates are fairly … productivity directly, by reallocating resources towards more productive uses, but also indirectly through the effects of increased …

We use a dynamic oligopoly model of entry and exit with store-type differentiation to evaluate how entry regulations … regulations for the welfare of differentiated product industries with endogenous entry and exit. … demand, recover variable profits, and estimate entry costs and fixed costs by store type. Counterfactual policy experiments …

by both high entry and high exit rates. … entrepreneurs and theentry and exit rate of entrepreneurs simultaneously and consistently. We apply our unified approach tothe …

We use a dynamic oligopoly model of entry and exit to evaluate how entry regulations affect profitability and market … stores in Sweden, we find that the average entry costs for small and large stores are 10 and 18 percent lower, respectively …, in markets with liberal compared with restrictive regulations. Counterfactual simulations show that lower entry costs in …

This paper estimates a dynamic, structural model of entry and exit in an oligopolistic industry and uses it to quantify …. Entry costs faced by potential entrants, fixed costs faced by incumbent producers, and the toughness of short-run price … the dentist industry allow the entry cost to differ for geographic markets that were designated as Health Professional …

We study patterns of entry and exit in the German interurban bus industry in the first three years after its … German cities - with the intensity of entry being dependent on the number of inhabitants, average income, the share of under …

-year-level productivity and markup estimates. We find that importing intermediate inputs is associated with large markup premium, while the …

International trade has been stated as one of the most important mean of improving firms' productivity, being the … contribute to local firm's productivity performance by incorporating better inputs in their production processes. This paper … of manufacturing formal firms in Ecuador, and, the causal relationship between the import decision and firm productivity …