Entry, Exit and Productivity: Empirical Results for German Manufacturing Industries

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Entry, Exit and Productivity: Empirical Results for German Manufacturing Industries. / Wagner, Joachim.
In: German Economic Review, Vol. 11, No. 1, 02.2010, p. 78-85.

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title = "Entry, Exit and Productivity: Empirical Results for German Manufacturing Industries",
abstract = "From a model by Hopenhayn, three hypotheses can be derived: (H1) Firms that exit in year t were less productive in t- 1 than firms that continue to produce in t. (H2) Firms that enter in year t are less productive than incumbent firms in year t. (H3) Surviving firms from an entry cohort were more productive than non-surviving firms from this cohort in the start year. This paper uses unique newly available panel datasets for all manufacturing plants from Germany (1995-2002) to test these hypotheses. All three hypotheses are supported empirically for West and East Germany. {\textcopyright} 2009 The Author. Journal Compilation {\textcopyright} Verein f{\"u}r Socialpolitik and Blackwell Publishing Ltd.",
keywords = "Economics, Entry, Exit, Productivity",
author = "Joachim Wagner",
note = "Literaturverz. S. 85",
year = "2010",
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journal = "German Economic Review",
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