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The Slow Growth of New Plants: Learning about Demand?

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  • Lucia Foster
  • John Haltiwanger
  • Chad Syverson

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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 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 demand accumulation process (e.g., building a customer base). We find active accumulation driven by plants’ past production decisions quantitatively dominates passive demand accumulation, and that within-firm spillovers affect demand levels but not growth.

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Paper provided by Center for Economic Studies, U.S. Census Bureau in its series Working Papers with number 12-06.

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Length: 53 pages
Date of creation: Mar 2012
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Handle: RePEc:cen:wpaper:12-06

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