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01-05: Why Some Firms Export

J. Jensen and Andrew Bernard

01-04: Who Dies? International Trade, Market Structure, and Industrial Restructuring

Andrew Bernard and J. Jensen

01-03: Plant-Level Productivity and the Market Value of a Firm

Douglas W Dwyer

01-02: Exporting and Productivity: The Importance of Reallocation

Andrew Bernard and J. Jensen

01-01: Business Success: Factors Leading to Surviving and Closing Successfully

Brian Headd

00-16: Measuring Productivity Dynamics with Endogenous Choice of Technology and Capacity Utilization: An Application to Automobile Assembly

Johannes Van Biesebroeck

00-15: An Economist's Primer on Survey Samples

William J Carrington, John L Eltinge and Kristin McCue

00-14: Outsourcing Business Service and the Scope of Local Markets

Yukako Ono

00-13: Technology Use and Worker Outcomes: Direct Evidence from Linked Employee-Employer Data

Adela Luque and Javier Miranda

00-12: An Option-Value Approach to Technology in U.S. Maufacturing: Evidence from Plant-Level Data

Adela Luque

00-11: County-Level Estimates of the Employment Prospects of Low-Skill Workers

David Ribar

00-10: Measuring the Electronic Economy: Current Status and Next Steps

Barbara Atrostic, John Gates and Ron Jarmin

00-09: The 1989 Change in the Definition of Capacity: A Plant-Level Perspective

Maura P Doyle

00-08: Plants and productivity in international trade

Andrew Bernard, Jonathan Eaton, J. Jensen and Samuel Kortum

00-07: Exporting and Productivity

Andrew Bernard and J. Jensen

00-06: The Impact of Vintage and Survival on Productivity: Evidence from Cohorts of U.S. Manufacturing Plants

J. Jensen, Robert H McGuckin and Kevin Stiroh

00-05: Technological Change and Economies of Scale in U.S. Poultry Slaughter

Milton Madison, James MacDonald and Michael Ollinger

00-04: Differences in Job Growth and Persistence in Services and Manufacturing

Catherine Armington and Zoltan Acs

00-03: Scale Economies and Consolidation in Hog Slaughter

James MacDonald and Michael Ollinger

00-02: The Impact of Ownership Changes: A View from Labor Markets

Robert H McGuckin and Sang Nguyen

00-01: Wage and Productivity Dispersion in U.S. Manufacturing: The Role of Computer Investment

Timothy Dunne, Lucia Foster, John Haltiwanger and Kenneth Troske

99-18: NEW DATA FOR DYNAMIC ANALYSIS: THE LONGITUDINAL ESTABLISHMENT AND ENTERPRISE MICRODATA (LEEM) FILE

Alicia Robb

99-17: PRODUCTIVITY AND ACQUISITIONS IN U.S. COAL MINING

David R Merrell

99-16: Gross Job Flows and Firms

Scott Schuh and Robert Triest

99-15: Employment Adjustment Costs and Establishment Characteristics

Lucia Foster

99-14: Job Flow Dynamics in the Service Sector

Zoltan Acs and Catherine Armington

99-13: Are Some Firms Better at IT? Differing Relationships between Productivity and IT Spending

Kevin M Stolarick

99-12: The Market for Corporate Assets: Who Engages in Mergers and Asset Sales and are there Efficiency Gains?

Gordon Phillips and Vojislav Maksimovic

99-11: Do Conglomerate Firms Allocate Resources Inefficiently?

Gordon Phillips and Vojislav Maksimovic

99-10: IT Spending and Firm Productivity: Additional Evidence from the Manufacturing Sector

Kevin M Stolarick

99-9: Costs of Air Quality Regulation

Randy Becker and J. Vernon Henderson

99-8: The Characteristics of Business Owners Database, 1992

Brian Headd

99-7: ON THE SOURCES AND SIZE OF EMPLOYMENT ADJUSTMENT COSTS

Lucia Foster

99-6: Large Plant Data in the LRD: Selection of a Sample for Estimation

Phoebus J Dhrymes and Linda Moeller

99-5: The Winner's Curse of Human Capital

Thomas Astebro and Irwin Bernhardt

99-4: Bank Loans as Predictors of Small Business Start-Up Survival

Thomas Astebro and Irwin Bernhardt

99-3: Does Firms' Financial Status Affect Plant-Level Investment and Exit Decisions?

Joachim Winter

99-2: GOVERNMENT TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE PROGRAMS* AND PLANT SURVIVAL: THE ROLE OF PLANT OWNERSHIP TYPE

Ron Jarmin

99-1: MEASURES OF JOB FLOW DYNAMICS IN THE U.S.*

Catherine Armington, Alicia Robb and Zoltan Acs

98-20: THE IMPACT OF STATE URBAN ENTERPRISE ZONES ON BUSINESS OUTCOMES*

Robert T Greenbaum and John B Engberg

98-19: LOCALIZED EFFECTS OF CALIFORNIA'S MILITARY BASE REALIGNMENTS: EVIDENCE FROM MULTI-SECTOR LONGITUDINAL MICRODATA

C.J. Krizan

98-18: NEW EVIDENCE ON SEX SEGREGATION AND SEX DIFFERENCES IN WAGES FROM MATCHED EMPLOYEE-EMPLOYER DATA*

Kenneth Troske, Kimberly N Bayard, Judith Hellerstein and David Neumark

98-17: MICROENTERPRISE AS AN EXIT ROUTE FROM POVERTY:* RECOMMENDATIONS FOR PROGRAMS AND POLICY MAKERS

Timothy Bates and Lisa Servon

98-16: THE MANUFACTURING PLANT OWNERSHIP CHANGE DATABASE: ITS CONSTRUCTION AND USEFULNESS

Sang Nguyen

98-15: Mergers and Acquisitions in the United States: 1990-1994

Catherine Armington and Alicia Robb

98-14: Optimal Firm Size and the Growth of Conglomerate and Single-Industry Firms

Gordon Phillips and Vojislav Maksimovic

98-13: Exiting Self-Employment: An Analysis of Asian Immigrant-Owned Small Businesses

Timothy Bates

98-12: Aggregate Productivity Growth: Lessons From Microeconomic Evidence

John Haltiwanger, C.J. Krizan and Lucia Foster

98-11: Job Reallocation And The Business Cycle: New Facts An Old Debate

Scott Schuh and Robert Triest

98-10: The Census of Construction Industries Database

Mark A Calabria