Details about Robert John Petrunia

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Short-id: ppe505

Working Papers

2023

1. Exporting and Investment Under Credit Constraints
   Staff Working Papers, Bank of Canada

2018

2. Tail Risk in a Retail Payments System
   Post-Print, HAL
   See also Journal Article Tail Risk in a Retail Payments System, Journal of Economics and Statistics (Jahrbuecher fuer Nationaloekonomie und Statistik), De Gruyter (2018) (2018)

2017

3. Industry shutdown rates and permanent layoffs: evidence from firm-worker matched data
   Post-Print, HAL View citations (6)
   See also Journal Article Industry shutdown rates and permanent layoffs: evidence from firm-worker matched data, IZA Journal of Labor Economics, Springer (2017) View citations (6) (2017)

2013

4. Public/Private Transitions and Firm Financing
   Staff Working Papers, Bank of Canada

2006

5. Financial Market Imperfections: Does it Matter for Firm Size Dynamics?
   Computing in Economics and Finance 2006, Society for Computational Economics View citations (1)

Journal Articles

2022

1. Does economic inequality breed murder? An empirical investigation of the relationship between economic inequality and homicide rates in Canadian provinces and CMAs
   Empirical Economics, 2022, 62, (6), 2951-2988 View citations (3)

2019

2. The impact of labour policies on Canadian gold mines in World War II
   Cliometrica, 2019, 13, (2), 163-200 View citations (2)

2018

3. Debt financing in private and public firms
   Annals of Finance, 2018, 14, (4), 465-487 View citations (6)
4. Studying Firm Growth Distributions with a Large Administrative Employment Database
   Journal of Economics and Statistics (Jahrbuecher fuer Nationaloekonomie und Statistik), 2018, 238, (3-4), 189-221
5. Tail Risk in a Retail Payments System
   Journal of Economics and Statistics (Jahrbuecher fuer Nationaloekonomie und Statistik), 2018, 238, (3-4), 353-369
   See also Working Paper Tail Risk in a Retail Payments System, Post-Print (2018) (2018)

2017

6. Industry shutdown rates and permanent layoffs: evidence from firm-worker matched data
   IZA Journal of Labor Economics, 2017, 6, (1), 1-31 View citations (6)
   See also Working Paper Industry shutdown rates and permanent layoffs: evidence from firm-worker matched data, Post-Print (2017) View citations (6) (2017)

2016

7. Post-Entry Struggle for Life and Pre-Exit Shadow of Death from a Financial Perspective
   International Journal of the Economics of Business, 2016, 23, (1), 1-18 View citations (8)

2015

8. A nonparametric analysis of firm size, leverage and labour productivity distribution dynamics
   Empirical Economics, 2015, 48, (1), 337-360 View citations (5)

2012

9. Duration of new firms: The role of startup financial conditions, industry and aggregate factors
   Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, 2012, 23, (4), 354-362 View citations (5)
10. Initial Financial Conditions, Unobserved Heterogeneity and the Survival of Nascent Canadian Manufacturing Firms
    Managerial and Decision Economics, 2012, 33, 109-125 View citations (8)

2011

11. Functional Principal Component Analysis of Density Families With Categorical and Continuous Data on Canadian Entrant Manufacturing Firms
    Journal of the American Statistical Association, 2011, 106, (495), 858-878 View citations (10)

2010

12. Age effects, leverage and firm growth
    Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 2010, 34, (5), 1003-1013 View citations (81)
13. THE IMPACT OF INITIAL FINANCIAL STATE ON FIRM DURATION ACROSS ENTRY COHORTS
    Journal of Industrial Economics, 2010, 58, (3), 661-689 View citations (36)

2008

14. Does Gibrat’s Law Hold? Evidence from Canadian Retail and Manufacturing Firms
    Small Business Economics, 2008, 30, (2), 201-214 View citations (23)
15. Entry penetration in Canadian manufacturing
    Economics Letters, 2008, 100, (1), 87-90 View citations (3)

2007

16. Persistence of initial debt in the long-term employment dynamics of new firms
    Canadian Journal of Economics, 2007, 40, (3), 861-880 View citations (14)
    Also in Canadian Journal of Economics/Revue canadienne d'économique, 2007, 40, (3), 861-880 (2007) View citations (11)

Chapters

2018

1. The Decline of Manufacturing in Canada: Resource Curse, Productivity Malaise or Natural Evolution?
   Springer

2016

2. Worker Separations and Industry Instability
   Springer