Firm Growth and Failure in Increasingly Competitive Markets Theory and Application to Hospital Markets

Lee Rivers Mobley and Harry Frech

International Journal of the Economics of Business, 1994, vol. 1, issue 1, 77-93

Abstract: Recent models of firm failure and growth have ignored demand factors. In this paper, we generalize these theoretical analyses to include demand factors in explaining failure and growth for heterogeneous firms in local markets facing imperfect but increasing competition. The model is then applied empirically to the hospital industry in California over the 1980s, during which time competition did intensify. We model the closure decision based on expectations of future growth, explicitly accounting for self selection and simultaneity. We find that both size and demand factors are important determinants of survival and growth

Keywords: Closure; Growth; Survivor analysis; Hospitals; Scale economies; Competition, I11, L11, L31, L44, L84, O24, (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1994
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