Economic transitions have the potential to displace workers and cause social unrest. Coal mine closures in the eastern United States due to the changing electricity system and the resulting employment losses in rural areas have become salient issues for all levels of government. Previous...

Using firm-level data for the UK, we investigate the link between firms ́financial health, borrowing ratio and export exit, paying special attention to the recent financial crisis. Our results show that deterioration in the financial position of firms has increased the hazard of export exit...

Using firm-level data for the UK, we investigate the link between firms’ financial health, borrowing ratio and export exit, paying special attention to the recent financial crisis. Our results show that deterioration in the financial position of firms has increased the hazard of export exit...

Wissenschaftliche Analysen zum Thema Marktaustritte von Unternehmen befassen sich aufgrund der Verfügbarkeit amtlicher Daten in vielen Fällen mit Unternehmensinsolvenzen. Die weitaus größere Gruppe von Marktaustritten besteht allerdings aus so genannten freiwilligen Schließungen.

The recent financial and economic crisis has brought back the attention to studying the characteristics of surviving firms and those exiting the market. Among these characteristics the access to finance has received large attention, since the economic crisis decreased the availability of finance...

This paper studies the implications of entry costs for business formation in a dynamic stochastic general equilibrium model with endogenous entry and exit. The paper first documents some facts about business formation in the US. Exit is more volatile than entry, both are more volatile than...

Micro-level empirical research has begun to obtain important results on the effects of currency variations on firms' survival. To date, the literature has lacked detailed analysis of the effects of exchange rates on firms' survival behavior in emerging markets due to a scarcity of firm level...

Die Diskussion über die medizinische Versorgungssicherheit wird gegenwärtig von einer Debatte um den Ärztemangel im ländlichen Raum dominiert. Im Schatten dieser Kontroverse warnen jedoch auch die deutschen Apothekenkammern und -spitzenverbände aufgrund zunehmender Geschäftsschließungen...

This paper studies aggregate dynamics in a cobweb model where learning takes place through a selection mechanism, by which more successful firms are replicated at a higher rate. The structure of the model allows to characterize analytically the aggregate dynamics, and to compute the effect on...