Search Results - subject:"Firm entry and exit"

Relative price fluctuations in a two-sector model with imperfect competition

Gabler, Alain - In: Review of economic dynamics 17 (2014) 3, pp. 474-483

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011280963

The economic effects of employment protection: Evidence from international industry-level data

Micco, Alejandro; Pagés, Carmen - 2007

This paper examines the economic effects of employment protection legislation in a sample of developed and developing countries. Implementing a difference-indifferences test lessens the potentially severe endogeneity and omitted variable problems associated with cross-country regressions. This...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278284

Policies Supporting Entrepreneurship and Self-Employment: A Regional Analysis

Roberta, Piergiovanni; Martin, Carree; Enrico, Santarelli; … - In: L'industria (2007) 2, pp. 199-220

This study presents a systematic recognition of regional policies supporting new firm formation in Italy between 1997 and 2005, and performs an evaluation exercise (for the 1997- 2003 period) of their impact on gross entry, exit and net entry in Italian provinces. The analysis is conducted in...

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The Economic Effects of Employment Protection: Evidence from International Industry-Level Data

Pagés-Serra, Carmen; Micco, Alejandro - Inter-American Development Bank - 2007

This paper examines the economic effects of employment protection legislation in a sample of developed and developing countries. Implementing a difference-in-differences test lessens the potentially severe endogeneity and omitted variable problems associated with cross-country regressions. This...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010944275

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...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005816441

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...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005697757

The Optimal Inflation Rate and Firm-Level Productivity Growth

Weber, Henning - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2012

Empirical data show that firms tend to improve their ranking in the productivity distribution over time. A sticky-price model with firm-level productivity growth fits this data and predicts that the optimal long-run inflation rate is positive and between 1.5% and 2% per year. In contrast, the...

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Creative Destruction and Transition : The Effects of Firm Entry and Exit on Productivity Growth in Estonia

Masso, Jaan; Eamets, Raul; Philips, Kaia - 2004

consisting of resource reallocation, firm entry and exit, and productivity growth within continuing firms is carried out. Our … entry and exit as well as survival analysis of new firms. Also decompositions of productivity change into components …This paper presents one of the first studies of firm demographics in Estonia, particularly, on the processes of firm …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261995

Employment Protection and Gross Job Flows: A Differences-in-Differences Approach

Pagés-Serra, Carmen; Micco, Alejandro - Inter-American Development Bank - 2004

This paper examines the effect of employment protection regulation on gross job flows in a sample of developed and developing countries. By implementing a differences-in-differences test we lessen the potentially severe endogeneity and omitted variable problems associated with cross-country...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010944367

FIRM DEMOGRAPHICS AND PRODUCTIVITY DYNAMICS IN ESTONIA

Masso, Jaan; Eamets, Raul; Philips, Kaia - Majandusteaduskond, Tartu Ülikool - 2004

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005635023