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Entry and exit from Greek manufacturing industry: a test of the symmetry hypothesis

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  • Louri, H.
  • Anagnostaki, V.

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The paper examines the role of trade patterns in the entry and exit decisions of firms and tests the existence of symmetry between entry and exit factors. Trade patterns were found, through their entry and exit impact, to affect the structure of Greek industry rather unfavourably. Prospects seem to be bleaker within the integrated European market of the 1990s. The lack of symmetry leads to increasing concentration. The gloomy outlook is improved by the strong stand of existing, competitive firms.

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Paper provided by University Library of Munich, Germany in its series MPRA Paper with number 40575.

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Date of creation: 1995
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Publication status: Published in International Review of Applied Economics 1.9(1995): pp. 86-95
Handle: RePEc:pra:mprapa:40575

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Keywords: firm entry; exit; symmetry;

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  1. Richard I.D. Harris & Qian Cher Li, . "Export-market dynamics and the probability of firm closure: Evidence for the UK," Working Papers 2008_17, Business School - Economics, University of Glasgow.
  2. Manjon, M.C., 2004. "Firm Size and Short-Term Dynamics in Aggregate Entry and Exit," Discussion Paper 2004-2, Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research.
  3. Werner Hölzl, 2003. "Tangible and intangible sunk costs and the entry and exit of firms in Austrian Manufacturing," Working Papers geewp33, Vienna University of Economics and B.A. Research Group: Growth and Employment in Europe: Sustainability and Competitiveness.
  4. Narjoko, Dionisius, 2009. "Plant entry in a more liberalised industrialisation process: an experience of Indonesian manufacturing during the 1990s," MPRA Paper 21960, University Library of Munich, Germany.
  5. Georgios Fotopoulos & Helen Louri, 2000. "Determinants of Hazard Confronting New Entry: Does Financial Structure Matter?," Review of Industrial Organization, Springer, vol. 17(3), pages 285-300, November.
  6. Werner Holzl, 2005. "Tangible and intangible sunk costs and the entry and exit of firms in a small open economy: the case of Austria," Applied Economics, Taylor and Francis Journals, vol. 37(21), pages 2429-2443.
  7. Fotopoulos, Georgios & Spence, Nigel, 1999. "Net entry behaviour in Greek manufacturing: consumer, intermediate and capital goods industries," International Journal of Industrial Organization, Elsevier, vol. 17(8), pages 1219-1230, November.

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