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Non-Equilibrium Industry Dynamics with Knowledge-Based Competition: An Agent-Based Computational Model
Myong-Hun Chang
Department of EconomicsCleveland State University
2007 International Conference of the System Dynamics SocietyBoston, Massachusetts
July 29 – August 2, 2007
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Empirical Regularities in Industrial Dynamics
• Gort and Klepper (Economic Journal, 1982) – Shake-outs
• No. of Producers initially rises, then declines sharply, eventually converging to a stable level
– Industry Outputs• Increasing at a decreasing rate over the course of the
industrial development
– Market Price• Monotonically declining at a decreasing rate
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• Further Empirical Evidences• Klepper and Simons (Industrial and Corporate
Change, 1997)• Klepper and Simons (Strategic Management Journal,
2000)• Klepper and Simons (Journal of Political Economy,
2000)• Klepper (RAND Journal of Economics, 2002)
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• Theoretical Models– Klepper and Graddy (RAND Journal of
Economics, 1990)– Jovanovic and MacDonald (Journal of Political
Economy, 1994)
– Common Properties• Potential entrants: Heterogeneous costs• Firm-level learning through one-time innovation or
imperfect imitation upon entry persistent cost heterogeneity
• Market competition Exits Shakeouts• Firms maximize discounted expected profits
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My Objective
• To propose a computational model which is:– Capable of generating all of the empirical
regularities for a wide range of parameter configurations
– Rich enough to allow comparative dynamics analysis: examine the impacts various parameters have on the resulting industry dynamics
• How do industry-specific factors (parameter configurations) affect the regularities?
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Inter-Industry Differences Affecting the Evolutionary Process
• Klepper and Graddy (1990)“… there are important differences across industries in the factors
that condition the evolutionary process. More fundamentally, it suggests that there are exogenous factors that differ across industries that affect the pace and severity of the evolutionary process.”
• Dunne, Roberts, and Samuelson (RJE, 1988)“… we find substantial and persistent differences in entry and exit
rates across industries. Entry and exit rates at a point in time are also highly correlated across industries so that industries with higher than average entry rates tend to also have higher than average exit rates. Together these suggest that industry-specific factors play an important role in determining entry and exit patterns.”
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• Industry-specific factors considered in this paper– Size of the Market Demand– Level of the Fixed Cost– Availability of Potential Entrants– Initial Wealth Levels of the Firms– Industry-specific Search Propensity– Complexity of the Technology Space
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The Model
• Production Process (Technology) as a Complex System of Activities– N distinct activities for a production process– For each activity, there is a finite set of methods
• 2 methods for simplicity – {0, 1}
– Space of all possible production technologies = {0, 1}N
– A particular choice of technology is a binary vector of length N
• x = (x1, …, xN), where xi= 0 or 1.
– Distance between two such vectors• Hamming distance: D(x, y) = ∑N
i=1|xi – yi|
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• Production Efficiency for a particular choice of a technology, x: e(x) fitness– Simple average of the efficiency contributions
that the N individual activities make– Production efficiency of a given technology is
influenced by the exact way in which the methods chosen for various activities fit together.
– For each activity, there are K (< N) other activities that influence the contribution of a given activity to the overall efficiency of the firm’s production system.
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– Let vj(xj, x1j, …, xK
j) be the contribution of activity j to a firm’s production efficiency.
• Random draw from [0, 100] according to uniform distribution
– Overall efficiency of the firm is:• e(x) = (1/N) ∑N
i=1vi(xi, x1i, …, xK
i)
– Efficiency landscape defined on Euclidean space with each activity of a firm being represented by a dimension of the space and the final dimension indicating the efficiency of the firm
– Firm’s innovation/imitation activities Search over the efficiency landscape
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• Efficiency landscape– Rugged if K > 0: Multiple local optima– Impact of N and K
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• Demand– P(Q) = a – Q
• Cost– C(qi) = fi + ci(xi)·qi
– ci(xi) = 100 – e(xi)
– C(qi) = f + [100 – e(xi)]qi
Demand and Cost
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• m-firm Cournot oligopoly with asymmetric costs– P* = [1/(m+1)](a + ∑m cj)
– qi* = P* - ci
– Π(qi*) = (qi
*)2 – f
– ci ≤ ck qi* ≥ qk
* Π(qi*) ≥ Π(qk
*)
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Dynamic Structure
• Beginning of Period-t– St-1: set of surviving firms from t-1 (S0=Ø)
• Some active and some inactive
– xit-1: survivor i’s technology from t-1 ( ci
t-1)
– wit-1: firm i’s current wealth carried from t-1
– Rt: set of potential entrants with xkt ( ck
t)
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Four Stages
• Stage 1: Entry decisions by potential entrants
• Stage 2: Innovation/imitation decisions by surviving incumbents
• Stage 3: Output decisions and market competition
• Stage 4: Exit decisions
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Entry (Stage 1)Pool of potential Pool of potential
entrantsentrants(with x(with xkk
tt and $b) and $b)
Surviving incumbents from Surviving incumbents from t-1 (with xt-1 (with xii
t-1t-1 and w and wiit-1t-1))
Enter iff as efficient as Enter iff as efficient as the least efficient the least efficient active incumbentactive incumbent
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Search by Incumbents (Stage 2)
αα: probability of : probability of search search
(exogenous)(exogenous)
ββiitt: probability : probability
of of innovation innovation
(endogenou(endogenous)s)1-1-ββiitt: :
probability probability of imitationof imitation
xxiitt
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Competition (Stage 3)
Cournot equilibrium Cournot equilibrium with asymmetric with asymmetric
costscosts
ΠΠiitt
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Exits (Stage 4)
wwiitt = w = wii
t-1t-1 + + ΠΠiitt
Stay in, iff wStay in, iff wiitt ≥ ≥
dd
Exit, otherwiseExit, otherwise
d: threshold d: threshold wealth wealth levellevel
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Design of Computational Experiments
• Parameters– N: no. of activities– K: degree of complexity– r: No. of potential entrants per period– f: fixed cost– a: market size– b: start-up budget for a new entrant– d: threshold wealth balance for exit– α: probability of search
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• Outputs to examine– no. of operating firms in t– no. of actual entrants in t– no. of exits in t– equilibrium market price in t– equilibrium industry output in t– industry concentration (HHI) in t– distribution of firms’ marginal costs in t– distribution of firm outputs in t
– distribution of technologies (xit for all i)
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Baseline
• N = 16• K = 2• r = 10• f = 20• a = 200• b = 100• d = 0.0• α = 1.0• T = 4,000 periods
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U.S. automobile tire industry
• Gort & Klepper (1982)
• Jovanovic & MacDonald (1994)
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Computational Results
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Entry, Exit, and Shakeout
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Price, Output, and Concentration
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Distribution of Marginal Costs and Firm Outputs
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Number of Distinct Technologies
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Degree of Technological Diversity(no. distinct technologies/no. of firms)
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Comparative Dynamics
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Results
• Turnover is higher (aggregate numbers of entry and exit over time are simultaneously greater) when:– market demand is larger– potential entrants pool is larger– start-up fund is smaller– firms have a lower propensity to search
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• No. of surviving incumbents is higher in the long run when:– market demand is larger– fixed cost is lower– pool of potential entrants is larger– production process entails a smaller number of
component activities
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• Degree of technological diversity is higher in the long run when:– market demand is smaller– fixed cost is higher– potential entrants pool is smaller– start-fund is smaller– firms have weaker propensity to search– production process entails a greater number of
component activities– there is a greater degree of interdependence
among component activities
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Conclusion
• Production process as a system of inter-dependent activities
• Firm as an adaptive entity whose survival depends on its ability to discover ways to perform various activities with greater efficiency than its rivals
• Selection pressure applied on the population of firms through the entry of new firms and the competition among the incumbent firms
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• Empirical regularities re-generated
• Examined how the regularities are affected by various industry-specific factors– market attributes– search propensities– nature of the technological space