Arbeitspapier

Exit Dynamics with Adjustment Costs

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We use the Stock and Wise approximation of stochastic dynamic programming in order to identify the extent to which profitability can explain exit behavior. In our econometric model, heterogeneous firms engage in Bertrand (price) competition. Firms produce heterogeneous products, using labor, materials and capital as inputs. The stock of capital is changed through investments and disinvestments, where the firm incurs adjustment costs due to partial irreversibilities. The model is estimated for six manufacturing industries using Norwegian micro data for the period 1993-2002. We find that increased profitability lowers the exit probability, and this effect is statistically significant in all industries, while, ceteris paribus, high adjustment costs significantly decrease the probability of exit in five of the industries. Exiting firms are characterized by persistently, although only moderately higher, annual exit probabilities than the average firm. There is no tendency for exiting firms to have a high probability of exit just prior to exit.

Language
Englisch

Bibliographic citation
Series: Discussion Papers ; No. 442

Classification
Wirtschaft
Multiple or Simultaneous Equation Models: Panel Data Models; Spatio-temporal Models
Model Construction and Estimation
Optimization Techniques; Programming Models; Dynamic Analysis
Noncooperative Games
Firm Behavior: Theory
Subject
Firm exit
adjustment costs
Bertrand game
manufacturing firms
mixed logit
state space model.

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Geistige Schöpfung
(who)
Golombek, Rolf
Raknerud, Arvid
Event
Veröffentlichung
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Statistics Norway, Research Department
(where)
Oslo
(when)
2005

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  • Golombek, Rolf
  • Raknerud, Arvid
  • Statistics Norway, Research Department

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  • 2005

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