The Within-Distribution Business Cycle Dynamics of German Firms

Sebastian Weber (sweber@diw.de) and Joerg Doepke (joerg.doepke@hs-merseburg.de)

Quantitative Macroeconomics Working Papers from Hamburg University, Department of Economics

Abstract: We analyse stylised facts for Germany’s business cycle at the firm level. Based on longitudinal firm-level data from the Bundesbank’s balance sheet statistics covering, on average, 55,000 firms per year from 1971 to 1998, we estimate transition probabilities of a firm in a certain real sales growth regime switching to another regime in the next period. We find that these probabilities depend on the business cycle position.

Keywords: business cycles; firm growth; markov chains (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D21 D92 E32 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2006-09
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