Sung, Nakil; Gort, Michael - In: The Review of Economics and Statistics 82 (2000) 4, pp. 694-697
This paper shows that firm-specific economies of scale—or net overall economies—are correlated with subadditivity. Both economies of scale and subadditivity are a decreasing function of firm size. Most firms are observed to be in the relatively flat portion of the long-run average cost...