On the size distribution of firms: additional evidence from the G7 countries

By Edoardo Gaffeo, Mauro Gallegati, Antonio Palestrini. 2003

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Explaining female and male entrepreneurship at the country level (2005, unknown): “This makes wage-employment more attractive (Lucas 1978, EIM/ENSR 1996).”
Statistical Size Distributions in Economics and Actuarial Sciences (2003, methodology): “2 a : Both estimators are consistent (Quandt, 1966b).”
Emergent Macroeconomics: An Agent-Based Approach to Business Fluctuations (2008, unknown): “For instance, as discussed above, empirical data have shown that firms size distribution is well approximated by a power law (Axtell, 2001; Gaffeo et al., 2003) and aggregate and firm’s growth rates are Laplace distributed (Stanley et al.”
Economic Development and Business Ownership: An Analysis Using Data of 23 OECD Countries in the Period 1976–1996 (2002, background): “Lucas (1978) shows how rising real wages may raise the opportunity cost of selfemployment relative to the return.”
The Quality of the Legal System, Firm Ownership, and Firm Size (2004, methodology): “Methodologically, our work is related to Kumar, Rajan and Zingales [henceforth, KRZ] (2002), who examine the determinants of firm size across 13 European countries.”
Invariances and Diversities in the Evolution of Manufacturing Industries (2003, unknown): “…highlighting the widespread occurrence of skewed distributions involving the coexistence of ﬁrms of widely diﬀerent sizes (see among many others Gibrat (1931); Hart and Prais (1956); Ijiri and Simon (1977); Quandt (1966); Simon and Bonini (1958); Stanley et al. (1995); Steindl (1965)).”
The Resource-Based Tangle: Towards a Sustainable Explanation of Competitive Advantage (2003, background): “The Barney 1991 framework”
The Impact of Entrepreneurship on Economic Growth (2003, background): “In conformity with Lucas (1978) an equilibrium is reached where individuals become managers if and only if (4.3) .”
Business fluctuations and bankruptcy avalanches in an evolving network economy (2009, background): “Panel (b) shows that, over time, a power law distribution of firms’ size emerges, according to the empirical evidence on firm size distribution (Axtell 2001; Gaffeo et al. 2003).”
MODELING INFORMALITY FORMALLY: HOUSEHOLDS AND FIRMS (2012, unknown): “Workers are homogenous but firms differ in terms of managerial ability, which in turn determines firm size as discussed in Lucas (1978).”
Corporate growth and industrial dynamics: evidence from French manufacturing (2005, background): “and also to the US (Simon and Bonini, 1958; Quandt, 1966) and Austrian data (Steindl, 1965).”
Information-based estimators for the non-stationary transition probability matrix: an application to the Danish pork industry (2002, background): “…and size distribution of firms rely on a very simple stochastic model, which is usually a variant of the well known Gibrat’s Law, i.e. firm growth is independent of firm size2 – although others develop more deterministic models of firm growth (such as Lucas(1978) and Jovanovic 1987, for example).”