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Empirical patterns of firm growth and R&D investment: a quality ladder model interpretation

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Zvi Griliches
Tor Jakob Klette

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We present a model of endogenous …rm growth with R&D investment and stochastic innovation as the engines of growth. The model for …rm growth is a partial equilibrium model drawing on the quality ladder models in the macro growth literature, but also on the literature on patent races and the discrete choice models of product di¤erentiation. We examine to what extent the assumptions and the empirical content of our model are consistent with many of the the …ndings that have emerged from empirical studies of growth, productivity, R&D and patenting at the …rm level. The analysis shows that the model …ts well with a number of empirical patterns such as (i) a skewed size distribution of …rms with persistent di¤erences in …rm sizes, (ii) …rm growth independent of …rm size, as stated in the so-called Gibrat’s law, and (iii) R&D investment proportional to sales.

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