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Inter-firm rivalry and firm growth: Is there any evidence of direct competition between firms?

Inter-firm competition has received much attention in the theoretical literature, but recent empirical work suggests that the growth rates of rival firms are uncorrelated, and that firm growth can be taken as an essentially independent process. We begin by investigating the correlations of the growth rates of competing firms (i.e. the largest and second-largest firms in the same industry) and observe that, surprisingly, the growth of these firms can be taken as independent. Nevertheless, peer-effect regressions, that take into account the simultaneous interdependence of growth rates of rival firms, are able to identify significant negative effects of rivals' growth on a firm's growth.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: Papers on Economics and Evolution ; No. 1018

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Firm Performance: Size, Diversification, and Scope
Thema
Competition
Firm growth
Peer effects econometrics
Unternehmenswachstum
Wettbewerb
Soziale Gruppe
Schätzung
Spanien

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Coad, Alex
Teruel, Mercedes
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Max Planck Institute of Economics
(wo)
Jena
(wann)
2010

Handle
URN
urn:nbn:de:gbv:27-20110628-151526-4
Letzte Aktualisierung
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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Coad, Alex
  • Teruel, Mercedes
  • Max Planck Institute of Economics

Entstanden

  • 2010

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