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A Reputational Theory of Firm Dynamics

By Simon Board and Moritz Meyer-ter-Vehn

American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, May 2022

We study the life cycle of a firm that produces a good of unknown quality. The firm manages its quality by investing while consumers learn via public breakthroughs; if the firm fails to generate such breakthroughs, its revenue falls and it eventually exit...