Modelling the Dynamics of Industry Populations

63 Pages Posted: 29 Jan 2001

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Paul A. Geroski

London Business School; Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR)

Mariana Mazzucato

The Open University

Date Written: December 2000

Abstract

This Paper examines four models that might be used to account for variations in the number of producers who operate in a particular market over the lifetime of that market. Two of these are standard economics textbook models, one is a non-standard model and one is a textbook model derived from the literature on organizational ecology. The four models have several observable differences and this opens up the possibility of testing any one against the others. We apply these four models to 93 years of data on the population of domestic car producers in the US car industry. The salient feature of this population is the very large rise and fall in the number of firms operating in the very early years of the industry, a phenomena which seems hard to account for using any of the three textbook models that we consider here.

Keywords: Industrial Economics, Industry Populations, Market Size, Organizational Ecology

JEL Classification: L10, L60

Suggested Citation

Geroski, Paul A. and Mazzucato, Mariana, Modelling the Dynamics of Industry Populations (December 2000). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=258084

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