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 … productive than non-surviving firms from this cohort in the start year. Results for Spain support all three hypotheses. This …

In this paper we provide empirical evidence on the determinants of firm start-up size using data for the manufacturing … sector in Ireland, and compare our results with recent findings for Portuguese manufacturing industries (Mata and Machado …, 1996). To allow for firm heterogeneity between firm entrants we use quantile regression techniques for our empirical …

innovation efficiency and firm performance with a sample of 12,020 Chinese manufacturing firms for the period 2005-2007. The …Firms, especially Chinese manufacturing firms, invest significant resources in innovation activities to sustain their … results show that most Chinese manufacturing firms are inefficient in R&D activities. Competition forces firms to focus on the …

This paper studies the relationship between firm markups and importing intermediate inputs and exporting using detailed … firm-level data from Hungary in 1995-2003. We estimate production functions structurally to obtain firm … theoretical framework, where firms lower their markup when exporting to more competitive foreign markets and where importing …

This paper analyses the potential mismatch between the conditions required for a manufacturing firm to become exporter … methodology, is the minimum combination of productivity and "economic size" (a broader measure of firm size) that firms need to …". The relative positioning of the "technology line" and the export threshold generates a new taxonomy of firms allowing for …

In this paper, we study a new channel to explain firms' price setting behavior. We propose that uncertainty about … factor prices has a positive effect on markups. We show theoretically that firms with higher shares of inputs with volatile … prices set higher markups. We use the Bartik shift-share approach to empirically test whether firms which use more oil …

This paper uses firm-level data for Mexican exporters to understand how firm-level export decisions shape a country … destinations and across exporting firms, and of the time-series variation in aggregate exports and its relation to time …-series variation in the export supply decisions of firms. It is found that the cross-sectional variation of exports is mostly accounted …

This paper applies a structural framework to estimate production function coefficients, obtain firm-level markup … profitability of the firms operating in the domestic market and exporters. Quantitatively, the results show no evidence of …

This paper studies the relationship between different proxies of firm-level markups and trade status using balance … positively correlated with markup measures both across and within firms. We argue that this correlation can reflect three …

We utilize a new survey on Norwegian firms' digitalization and technology investments, linked to population …-wide register data, to show that the pandemic massively disrupted the technology investment plans of firms, not only postponing … investments, but also introducing new technologies. More productive firms innovated, while less productive firms postponed …