COST Network: Comparative Analysis of Enterprise Data: Industry Dynamics, Firm Performance, and Worker Outcomes

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COST Action IS0701: Comparative Analysis of Enterprise Data

Working Group Papers on Industry Dynamics

• “Cross-Country Differences in Productivity: The Role of Allocation and Selection.” Bartelsman, Eric, John C. Haltiwanger, and Stefano Scarpetta. NBERWorking Paper, November 2009.

• “Dismissals for Cause: The Difference that Just Eight Paragraphs Can Make.” Martins, Pedro. Journal of Labor Economics, Vol. 27(2), 257-279, 2009.

• “Do Labour Market Institutions Matter? Micro-Level Wage Effects of International Outsourcing in Three European Countries.” Geishecher, Ingo, and Holger Gorg. IZA Discussion Paper. Published in: Review of World Economics, Vol. 146 (1), 179-198, 2010.

• “Do Mergers Improve Information? Evidence from the Loan Market.” Panetta, F. Fabiano Schivardi, and M. Shum. Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, Vol. 41(4), 673-709, 2009.

• “Dynamic Olley-Pakes Decomposition with Entry and Exit.” Melitz, Marc J., and Saso Polanec. Working Paper, October 2, 2009.

• “Entry Barriers in Italian Retail Trade.” Schivardi, Fabiano, and E. Viviano, Economic Journal, forthcoming.

• “Forecasting Productivity Using Information from Firm-Level Data.” Bartelsman, Eric, and Zoltán Wolf. Tinbergen Institute Discussion Papers 09-043/3, 2009.

• “Measuring and Analyzing Cross-Country Differences in Firm Dynamics.” Bartelsman, Eric J., John Haltiwanger, and Stefano Scarpetta.” In Producer Dynamics, Timothy Dunne, J. Bradford Jensen, and Mark Roberts, (eds.), NBER Studies in Income and Wealth, Volume 68, University of Chicago Press, 2009.

• “Microcredit, Employment, Sales, and Survival: An Empirical Evaluation Using a Panel Matching Estimator.” Brown, J. David, and John S. Earle. Working paper, May 2010.

• “Micro-level Rigidity vs. Macro-level Flexibility: Lessons from Finland.” Böckerman, Petri, Seppo Laaksonen, and Jari Vainiomäki. MPRA Paper 15061, University Library of Munich, Germany, 2009.

• “Searching for the Sources of Productivity: From Macro to Micro and Back.” Bartelsman, Eric J. Industrial and Corporate Change, accepted for publication 2010.

• “Startup Growth, Finance, and the Business Environment: Evidence from Universal Firm-Level Data in Eight Economies.” Brown, J. David, and John S. Earle. Working paper, January 2010.

• “What Determines Entrepreneurial Clusters?” Guiso, L. and Fabiano Schivardi, previously circulated as “Learning to be an Entrepreneur.” Journal of the European Economic Association, forthcoming.

• “Working at the Boundary between Market and Flexicurity : Housekeeping in Danish Hotels.” Eriksson, Tor Viking, and Jingkun Li. International Labour Review, Vol. 148,(4), 357-373, 2009. Peer-reviewed article.