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We build a model of firm-level innovation, productivity growth and reallocation featuring endogenous entry and exit. A key feature is the selection between high- and low-type firms, which differ in terms of their innovat...Read more...
Daron Acemoglu, Ufuk Akcigit, Nicholas Bloom and William R. Kerr
14 May 2013
We identify the impact of local firm concentration on incumbent performance with a quasi natural experiment. When Germany was divided after World War II, many firms in the machine tool industry fled the Soviet occupied z...Read more...
Oliver Falck, Christina Guenther, Stephan Heblich and William R. Kerr
27 August 2011