The Slow Growth of New Plants: Learning About Demand?
Abstract
It is well known that new businesses are typically much smaller than their established industry competitors, and that this size gap closes slowly. We show that even in commodity‐like product markets, these patterns do not reflect productivity gaps, but rather show differences in demand‐side fundamentals. We document and explore patterns in plants’ idiosyncratic demand levels by estimating a dynamic model of plant expansion in the presence of a...
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Title
The Slow Growth of New Plants: Learning About Demand?
Published Date
Jan 1, 2012
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