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TY - JOUR
T1 - Subcontracting and the survival of plants in the road construction industry
T2 - a panel quantile regression analysis
AU - De Silva, Dakshina Garfield
AU - Kosmopoulou, Georgia
AU - Lamarche, Carlos
N1 - This is the author’s version of a work that was accepted for publication in Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization. Changes resulting from the publishing process, such as peer review, editing, corrections, structural formatting, and other quality control mechanisms may not be reflected in this document. Changes may have been made to this work since it was submitted for publication. A definitive version was subsequently published in Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 137, 2017 DOI: 10.1016/j.jebo.2017.02.016
PY - 2017/5
Y1 - 2017/5
N2 - This paper investigates how subcontracting parts of contracted work shapes entrants’ success and survival. We find that newly developed quantile regression approaches can be adapted to study survival of firms competing for government contracts in road construction. The method is applied on a data set that includes patterns of firm entry, exit and auction related information. We find an apparent increase in the business life of firms who subcontract out part of their projects. In Texas, these subcontracting effects appear to be more pronounced for firms with few or no options outside the industry, and among firms who contract out part of their work to Disadvantaged Business Enterprises.
AB - This paper investigates how subcontracting parts of contracted work shapes entrants’ success and survival. We find that newly developed quantile regression approaches can be adapted to study survival of firms competing for government contracts in road construction. The method is applied on a data set that includes patterns of firm entry, exit and auction related information. We find an apparent increase in the business life of firms who subcontract out part of their projects. In Texas, these subcontracting effects appear to be more pronounced for firms with few or no options outside the industry, and among firms who contract out part of their work to Disadvantaged Business Enterprises.
KW - Entrants
KW - Procurement auctions
KW - Survival analysis
KW - Quantile regression
U2 - 10.1016/j.jebo.2017.02.016
DO - 10.1016/j.jebo.2017.02.016
M3 - Journal article
VL - 137
SP - 113
EP - 131
JO - Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization
JF - Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization
SN - 0167-2681
ER -