Estimation of Optimum Size of Plant by the Survivor Technique

T. R. Saving

The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 1961, vol. 75, issue 4, 569-607

Abstract: I. The nature of optimum size, 569. — II. Problems in estimating optimum size, 570. — III. Previous techniques for the estimation of optimum size, 572. — IV. The survivor technique, 572. — V. Applying the technique, 574. — VI. An investigation of the relationship between optimum plant size and various economic variables, 582. — VII. Summary and conclusions, 596. — Appendix I. Optimum size in 89 American manufacturing industries, 598. — Appendix II. Four possible movements in the distribution of plants, 603. — Appendix III. Measurement of the independent variables, 605.

Date: 1961
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