TY - JOUR ID - 54811 TI - Life Duration of New Firms in Iranian Manufacturing Industries Using Cox Proportional Hazard Model JO - Iranian Economic Review JA - IER LA - en SN - 1026-6542 AU - Feizpour, Mohammad Ali AU - Hajikhodazadeh, Hossain AU - Shahmohammadi Mehrjardi, Abolfazl AD - Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Business School, Yazd University, Yazd, Iran AD - M.A. in Econimics, Yazd University, Yazd, Iran AD - M.A, in Econimics, Department of Economics, Payame Noor University, Tehran, Iran. Y1 - 2014 PY - 2014 VL - 18 IS - 3 SP - 133 EP - 156 KW - Cox Hazard Function KW - Life Duration KW - Manufacturing Industries of Iran KW - New Firms DO - 10.22059/ier.2015.54811 N2 - In this paper, the Cox proportional hazard model is used to answer several questions. In general, fourteen variables are applied in four groups: firm, industry, expenditure human resources specific characteristics as well. According to the previous literature in this field, the findings of this paper also show that the factors which affect life duration of firms are different between industries. Summing up, the life duration of manufacturing firm in Iran are positively affected by start-up size, profitability, efficiency, concentration rate, minimum efficient scale, industry growth rate, investment, advertising and education expenditure as well as labor force skills. While, entry rate of firms affect the life duration of firms, inversely. In term of policy, the findings of this paper confirm the importance of industry on the firm’s life duration and the necessity of paying more attention to this variable. UR - https://ier.ut.ac.ir/article_54811.html L1 - https://ier.ut.ac.ir/article_54811_c3c32941a0d8c8d114e7a391e76d52e0.pdf ER -