Search Results - subject:"Entry and exit"

Geographical Agglomeration in Australian Manufacturing

Leahy, Anne; Palangkaraya, Alfons; Yong, Jongsay - Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social … - 2007

This paper investigates the geographic agglomeration of establishments in the Australian manufacturing industries during the period of 1994{1997. We find that although the agglomeration of Australian manufacturing has doubled during the period, it is still not as agglomerated as those in other...

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Endogenous Growth through Selection and Imitation

Gabler, Alain; Licandro, Omar - Department of Economics, European University Institute - 2007

A simple dynamic general equilibrium model is set up in which firms face idiosyncratic productivity shocks. Firms whose productivity has fallen too low exit, and entrants try to imitate the best practice of existing firms, so that the expected productivity of entering firms is a function of...

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Do Employment Protections Reduce Productivity? Evidence from U.S. States

Autor, David H.; Kerr, William R.; Kugler, Adriana D. - Harvard Business School, Harvard University - 2007

suggestive but tentative. Keywords: Dismissal Costs, Employment Fluctuations, Entry and Exit, Labor Productiv- ity, TFP … this gap. Prieger (2005) examines the impact of the Americans with Disabilities Act on the entry and exit of �rms in retail …-invariant identi�ers that further a�ord longitudinal estimations of these two dimensions of adjustment. The entry and exit rates for …

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Firm Export Dynamics and the Geography of Trade

Lawless, Martina - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

in individual export markets is found to be much more dynamic than export status. Entry and exit to markets is shown to … markets. The paper also shows how the patterns of entry and exit into export markets combine to determine the overall firm …

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Sector-specific Markup Fluctuations and the Business Cycle

Gabler, Alain - Department of Economics, European University Institute - 2007

The counter-cyclicality in the relative price of equipment investment which is observed in the U.S. has been attributed to equipment-specific productivity shocks. Cross-country evidence indicates that a number of countries experience sizeable delays between a surge in equipment production and a...

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Trade Liberalisation, Exit, and Output and Employment Adjustments of Australian Manufacturing Establishments

Palangkaraya, Alfons; Yong, Jongsay - Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social … - 2007

We use unpublished establishment level data of Australian manufacturing from 1993-94 and 1996-97 censuses to study how trade liberalisation affects productivity. More specifically, we use the variation in the extent of trade liberalisation across four digit ANZSIC manufacturing industries...

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Permit Trading and Credit Trading: A Comparison ofCap-Based and Rate-Based Emissions Trading underPerfect and Imperfect Competition

Boom, Jan-Tjeerd; Dijkstra, Bouwe R. - The Royal Veterinary and Agricultural UniversityFood …; … - 2006

.Environmental policy can lead to both entry and exit of firms. Entry and exit have aprofound impact on the performance of the schemes … trading. Environmental policy can lead to both entry and exit of firms. Entry and exit have a profound impact on the … level of emissions. Keywords: emissions trading, entry and exit, permit allocation, tradable performance stan- dards JEL …

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Business demography in Spain : determinants of firm survival

López García, Paloma; Puente Díaz, Sergio - 2006

The impact of entry upon market performance depends not only on the number of entries and their size, but also on how long do the firms last. Consequently, there are an increasing number of papers, most of them focused on the United States and restricted to the manufacturing sector, aimed at...

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Productivity and Market Selection of French Manufacturing Firms in the Nineties

Nesta, Lionel; Bellone, Flora; Musso, Patrick; Quéré, … - Sciences économiques, Sciences Po - 2006

This paper analyses post-entry and pre-exit performance of French firms using a dataset covering 14 manufacturing industries over the period 1990-2002. The main focus is on market selection mechanisms looking at total factor productivity levels of entrants and exitors relative to incumbent...

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Multi-product firms and product switching

Bernard, Andrew B.; Redding, Stephen; Schott, Peter.K - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2006

This paper examines the frequency, pervasiveness and determinants of product switching among U.S. manufacturing firms. We find that two-thirds of firms alter their mix of five-digit SIC products every five years, that one-third of the increase in real U.S. manufacturing shipments between 1972...

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