Firm exit, technological progress and trade

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• 作者：Philipp J.H. Schrö ; der¹ ; ^psc@asb.dk ; Allan Sø ; rensen ; ^{allans@asb.dk}
• 关键词：Intra-industry trade ; Entry/exit ; Monopolistic competition ; Heterogeneous firms ; Technological change
• 刊名：European Economic Review
• 出版年：2012
• 期刊代码：13_00142921
• 类别：eco
• 出版时间：April, 2012
• 卷：56
• 期：3
• 页码：579-591
• 文件大小：225 K

摘要

The dynamics of export market exit and firm closure have found limited attention in the new heterogeneous-firms trade literature. In fact, several of the predictions on firm survival and exit stemming from this new class of models are at odds with the stylized facts. Empirically, higher productivity firms survive longer, most firm closures are young firms, higher productivity exporters are more likely to continue to export compared to less productive exporters and market exits as well as firm closures are typically preceded by periods of contracting market shares. The present paper shows that the simple inclusion of exogenous economy wide technological progress into the standard model generates a tractable dynamic framework that generates endogenous exit decisions of firms in line with the stylized facts. Furthermore, we derive the effects of faster technological progress and trade liberalization on export market exit and firm closure.