| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w15957 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 15957 |
| An Alternative Theory of the Plant Size Distribution with an Application to Trade | |
| Thomas J. Holmes; John J. Stevens | |
| 发表日期 | 2010-04-29 |
| 出版年 | 2010 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | There is wide variation in the sizes of manufacturing plants, even within the most narrowly defined industry classifications used by statistical agencies. Standard theories attribute all such size differences to productivity differences. This paper develops an alternative theory in which industries are made up of large plants producing standardized goods and small plants making custom or specialty goods. It uses confidential Census data to estimate the parameters of the model, including estimates of plant counts in the standardized and specialty segments by industry. The estimated model fits the data relatively well compared with estimates based on standard approaches. In particular, the predictions of the model for the impacts of a surge in imports from China are consistent with what happened to U.S. manufacturing industries that experienced such a surge over the period 1997--2007. Large-scale standardized plants were decimated, while small-scale specialty plants were relatively less impacted. |
| 主题 | International Economics ; Trade ; Industrial Organization ; Market Structure and Firm Performance |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w15957 |
| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/573633 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Thomas J. Holmes,John J. Stevens. An Alternative Theory of the Plant Size Distribution with an Application to Trade. 2010. |
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| w15957.pdf（390KB） | 智库出版物 | 限制开放 | CC BY-NC-SA | 浏览 | ||
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