by the adjustment of the extensive margin which is more than four times the net contribution of firm entry and exit. The … incidence of large investment outlays. While the level of productivity does not seem to increase the probability of adding a … product, a net increase in the number of products is strongly associated with subsequent growth in sales, productivity and …

costs, and productivity growth). It finds that both forces exert important influences on Canadian prices. The responses …

1992): (H1) Firms that exit in year t were in t-1 less productive than firms that continue to produce in t. (H2) Firms that … enter in year t are less productive than incumbent firms in year t. (H3) Surviving firms from an entry cohort were more …

decomposition is shown in a model featuring heterogeneous multiproduct firms, oligopolistic competition and free firm entry. When … firm-level productivity decreases while the dispersion rises up, firm product scope decreases and sums up to a lower number …

of entry and exit of U.S. manufacturing plants, in terms of employment and productivity, between 1972 and 1997. We show … how entry and exit patterns vary during the business cycle, and that the cyclical pattern of entry is very different from … the cyclical pattern of exit. Second, we build a general equilibrium model of plant entry, exit, and employment and …

The study aims at describing productivity growth in the manufacturing sector for a selected panel of five European … countries using firm-level data. The paper explores the empirical regularities of firm productivity distribution across … countries. In particular, we assess the degree of persistence of firm relative productivity and consider its effect on aggregate …