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Entry costs and the macroeconomy

by Gutiérrez, Germán
Authors: Jones, Callum | Philippon, Thomas Series: NBER working paper series . 25609 Published by : NBER (Cambridge) Physical details: 56 p. Subject(s): Economia monetária | Investimento | Indústria | Custo de capital | Macroeconomia | Ciclos económicos | Modelos | EUA Year: 2019
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We propose a model to identify the causes of rising profits and concentration, and declining entry and investment in the US economy. Our approach combines a rich structural DSGE model with cross-sectional identification from firm and industry data. Using asset prices, our model estimates the realized and anticipated shocks that drive the endogeneity of entry and concentration and recovers shocks to entry costs. We validate our approach by showing that the model-implied entry shocks correlate with independently constructed measures of entry regulation and M&A activities. We conclude that entry costs have risen and that the ensuing decline in competition has depressed consumption by five to ten percent.

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