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There is an abundant literature on industrial ecology aiming at explaining the survival propensity of recently started firms. The majority of the contributions concentrate on the characteristics of the entrepreneur, the new firm or the industry. Only a small minority of the existing studies...
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different structural changes between countries to separate the respective effects. Our results show that the effect of entry … lead to misleading conclusions. We find no robust evidence that entry has a price-decreasing effect on markets with … originally 2 operators. However, the entry of a 4th operator does have a price-decreasing effect, but with different dynamics …
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We exploit the introduction of sulfa drugs in 1937 to identify the impact of exposure to pneumonia in infancy on later life well-being and productivity in the United States. Using census data from 1980-2000, we find that cohorts born after the introduction of sulfa experienced increases in...
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We estimate impacts of exposure to an infant health intervention trialled in Sweden in the early 1930s using purposively digitised birth registers linked to school catalogues, census files and tax records to generate longitudinal data that track individuals through four stages of the...
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Although learning-by-doing is believed to be an important source of productivity growth there is limited evidence that production volume affects productivity in a causal sense. We document evidence of learning-by-doing in a high-skill profession where stakes are high; advanced cancer surgery....
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In recent years across Europe, mobile operators have made a number of attempts to consolidate. Consolidation, whether it is successful or not, inevitably focuses on the number of mobile network operators present in a market. Largely overlooked in the discussion of how many mobile network...
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the firms’ post-entry development. Nevertheless, few existing studies are dealing with questions of entrepreneurship in … the KIBS sector using micro firm data. This contribution gives an empirical analysis of the determinants of post-entry …-Classification: D21, J23, L80, O30 Keywords: Employment growth; Entrepreneurship; Entry; Innovation; Knowledge-intensive business …
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introduced to pre-empt the entry of low cost competitor declined at the time of entry. Moreover, we find that regulation, which … competition between established operators and by entry of fourth low cost operator. …
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runs, and face a threat of entry. Higher competition increases deposit rates and bank fragility, resulting in an … is to deter entry of competitors, which increases bank charter value. Banks can be excessively opaque, motivating …
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reform. We find a sharp persistent increase in entry rates for expanding firms. These firms can double revenues but not …
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