We estimate changes in the volatility of firm-level sales, earnings and employment growth of US firms. Our method … differs from existing measures for firm-level sales and employment volatility in that it not only captures longer-run changes …

We estimate changes in firm-specific volatility in sales and earnings growth of US firms. We do so using an approach …

research note, we provide the first analysis of losses in sales and revenues among the universe of businesses in California … using administrative data from the California Department of Tax and Fee Administration. The losses in sales average 17 … percent in the second quarter of 2020 relative to the second quarter of 2019 even though year-over-year sales typically grow …

Over the past years, public smoking bans have been introduced in most European countries. Unlike elsewhere, in Germany … establishments’ sales. In contrast to the largely US-based literature, we find that smoke-free policies had a negative (yet moderate …) effect on establishment sales. Closure rates of businesses in the hospitality industry, however, were not significantly …