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This paper investigates the extent to which productivity growth is the result of turnover - the process that shifts … continuing producers. The paper proposes a method for measuring the impact of plant turnover on productivity growth and outlines …
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Recent empirical studies suggest that there is a rising trend of market power across sectors in advanced economies. We contribute to this line of research by providing industry-specific evidence for German manufacturing industries, based on representative high-quality firm level data from...
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structure on firm conduct and productivity in a rapidly innovating industry. Both industries were competitive in the 1880s, and … formation of the Tobacco Trust in 1890, U.S. productivity growth slowed and the UK assumed the productivity lead. Productivity …-trust action in 1911. This case provides examples of competition leading to more rapid productivity growth through both more rapid …
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productivity of larger firms relative to smaller firms. In particular, collusion is associated with a reduction or even a reversal … of the productivity gap between larger and smaller firms. This result is robust to controlling for the potential … endogeneity of collusion. -- Competition ; collusion ; productivity …
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firms always have a higher market share, there is no monotonic relationship between firms' productivity level and their … effect. Therefore, the incentive to add more products weakens as productivity rises. This leads to Lemma 3 in Feenstra and Ma …
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firms always have a higher market share, there is no monotonic relationship between firms' productivity level and their … effect". Therefore, the incentive to add more products weakens as productivity rises. This leads to Lemma 3 in Feenstra and … evidence is in line with the results from the theoretical model. -- multi-product firms ; productivity ; optimal product scope …
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firms always have a higher market share, there is no monotonic relationship between firms' productivity level and their … effect'. Therefore, the incentive to add more products weakens as productivity rises. This leads to Lemma 3 in Feenstra and … evidence is in line with the results from the theoretical model. -- Multi-product firms ; productivity ; optimal product scope …
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Trade and growth theories predict a mutual causation of innovation and exports. We test empirically whether innovation … causes exports using a uniquely rich German micro dataset. Our instrumental-variable strategy identifies variation in …
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Trade and growth theories predict a mutual causation of innovation and exports. We test empirically whether innovation … causes exports using a uniquely rich German micro dataset. Our instrumental-variable strategy identifies variation in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013319300