This paper analyzes the process of creative destruction across 24 countries and 2-digit industries. This approach harmonizes firm level data across countries, enabling international comparisons and the identification of country-specific as opposed to sectoral and time effects factors. All...

The paper investigates the economic effects of major product market reforms in some of the historically most protected non-manufacturing industries. It relies on a unique mapping between new annual data on reform shocks and sector-level outcomes for five network industries (electricity and gas,...

Bartelsman, Haltiwanger, and Scarpetta provide an analysis of the process of creative destruction across 24 countries and 2-digit industries over the past decade. They rely on a newly assembled dataset that draws from different micro data sources (business registers, census, or representative...