Old Firms and New Export Flows: Does Experience Increase Survival?

Old Wine in New Bottles: The Effect of Previous Co-Worker Experience on the Survival of New Firms

The aim of the paper is to investigate the effect of previous co-worker experience on the survival of new established firms. For the empirical analysis I use the Danish Integrated Database of Labor Market Research (IDA). This longitudinal employer-employee database allows me to identify co-worker experience among all members of the firm. In addition, I will make a distinction between ordinary s...

Why Some Firms Export

This paper presents a dynamic model of the export decision by a profit-maximizing firm. Using a panel of U.S. manufacturing plants, we test for the role of plant characteristics, spillovers from neighboring exporters, entry costs and government export promotion expenditures. Entry and exit in the export market by U.S. plants is substantial, past exporters are apt to reenter, and plants are like...

Firms export decisions

A Demographic Approach to Firm Dynamics: Formation of New Firms and Survival of Old Ones

But Does It Increase Survival Rate?

In the early 1960s, we used the few antiarrhythmic drugs available empirically, presuming that every premature ventricular contraction had to be suppressed. This presumption spurred ever greater effort, much of it going into antiarrhythmic drug development.' Throughout the 1980s, one new drug was being developed about every six months,2 and the number of antiarrhythmic prescriptions rose expone...