repeat this behavior in the following year. Fourth, survival estimations reveal that diversification activities reduce the …

, and survival. Data on the laser industry, where submarkets are prominent, further illustrate the ability of the model to …

Based on a structural model for initial firm size, survival and firm growth we estimate firm-specific transition …

In this paper we analyze the relationship between survival, employment growth and firm size in Chile, an economy that … small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) in the manufacturing sector have experienced negative effects on their survival …

growth and survival of 6247 new ventures that are tracked using the customer records at Barclays Bank. We put forward Gambler …’s Ruin as a simple theory for understanding new venture growth and survival. Gambler’s Ruin predicts that the R2 remains low … for growth rate regressions, but that the R2 increases in the years since start-up for survival regressions. The …

important impetus to plant survival and employment growth. We also discover some differences in terms of the effectiveness of …

. Those with higher TFP have higher survival probabilities. However, increased competition does not induce incumbents to raise …