Estimation of Optimum Size of Plant by the Survivor Technique Academic Article uri icon

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. Copyright, 1961 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College. 1961, Oxford University Press. All rights reserved.

published proceedings

  • The Quarterly Journal of Economics

author list (cited authors)

  • Saving, T. R.

citation count

  • 37

complete list of authors

  • Saving, TR

publication date

  • November 1961