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Title: Geographic Concentration and Heterogeneity in Competitive Intensity: Postbellum Firearms Firms in the Southern United States

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Publication Year: 2012

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Abstract: I use a disaggregated measure of geographic concentration to study the possibility that proximity to clusters of organizations with different competitive intensities has varying effects on firm outcomes. The post-Civil War period in the Southern United States saw the presence of two types of firearms firms with varying degrees of competitive experience: Firms that had operated during the Civil War and were exposed to a resource-rich but less competitive environment, and firms founded after the war in a much more competitive but low-resource environment. As expected, proximity to firms founded after the Civil War (though they were inherently weaker) was more likely to lead to firm failure than proximity to firms with Civil War experience (though they were inherently stronger).

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Authors: Kasbekar, Chirag

Publisher: Goizueta Business School, Emory University

Data Collections: IPUMS NHGIS

Topics: Other

Countries: United States