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We look at how missing growth varies across French sectors and regions, and we look at the underlying establishment and firm dynamics. In particular we show that the similar missing growth estimates between France and the United States hide noticeable differences in plant dynamics between the two countries.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this paper we use the same methodology as Aghion et\u00a0al. (2017) to compute missing growth estimates from creative destruction in France. 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