Eslava Mejía, Marcela; Haltiwanger, John C.; Kugler, … - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2009
We use plant output and input prices to decompose the profit margin into four parts:productivity, demand shocks, mark … variation across sectors intariff changes after the Colombian trade reform to assess whether the impact of marketfundamentals on … impact of productivity, and other marketfundamentals, on plant exit. A dynamic simulation that compares the distribution …