This paper explores the evolution of the average wage of employees over the life-cycle of a manufacturing plant. The …

This paper uses newly available firm-level tax data to evaluate the market structure in South African manufacturing … sectors in the period 2010-12. To describe the market structure we compute markups for South African manufacturing firms and … concentration indexes for 4-digit manufacturing sectors. We find both significant markups and significant concentration across most …

We develop and structurally estimate a model of heterogeneous multiproduct firms that can be used to decompose the firm … variation in firm sales. We show that the imperfect substitutability of products within firms, and the fact that larger firms … on prices and sales, we find that variation in firm appeal and product scope explains at least four fifths of the …

The success or failure of small, young, and private firms depends highly on the evolution of their financial position …. This paper considers the post-entry/pre-exit adjustment process of firms with focus on financial dynamics (debt … private firms. With age, the post-entry struggle for life sees entrants become relatively larger and reduce their leverage …

manufacturing sector. In order to control for mutual causality between credit availability and firm growth, industry differences in … entering and exiting firms are included. The paper further finds that credit expansion have encouraged not only firm growth but …This paper documents the relationship between regional financial development and firm growth in the Peruvian …

We use a unique cross-section survey of manufacturing firms from four European countries (France, Germany, Italy, Spain …) linked with balance sheet data to study the relationship between key aspects of globalization and firm-level markups. The … are also positively correlated with markups; (iii) Firms with affiliates have higher markups than other firms, while …

compared to previous studies and use Swedish firm-level inventory data on finished goods of own production to measure the …