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BUSINESS CYCLE EVIDENCE ON FIRM ENTRY

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 October 2009

Vivien Lewis
Vivien Lewis*
Affiliation:
Ghent University and National Bank of Belgium
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Address correspondence to: Vivien Lewis, Department of Financial Economics, Ghent University, W. Wilsonplein 5D, 9000 Gent, Belgium; e-mail: vivien.lewis@ugent.be; URL: http://sites.google.com/site/vivienjlewis
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Abstract

Business cycle models with sticky prices and endogenous firm entry make novel predictions on the transmission of shocks through the extensive margin of investment. I test some of these predictions using a VAR with model-based sign restrictions. I find a positive and significant response of firm entry to expansionary shocks to productivity, aggregate spending, monetary policy, and entry costs. The estimated response to a monetary expansion does not support the monetary policy transmission mechanism proposed by the model. Insofar as firm startups require labor services, wage stickiness is needed to make the signs of the model responses consistent with the estimated ones. The shapes of the empirical responses suggest that congestion effects in entry make it harder for new firms to survive when the number of startups rises.

Keywords

Firm EntryBusiness CyclesVAR
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Macroeconomic Dynamics , Volume 13 , Issue 5 , November 2009 , pp. 605 - 624
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2009

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