Defending Gibrat’s Law as a long-run regularity

By F. Lotti, Enrico Santarelli, M. Vivarelli. Social Science Research Network, 2007

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Subfields: Accounting, Economics and Econometrics

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Effectiveness and efficiency of SME innovation policy (2013, background): “Lev (2001) noted that many innovative firms did not include any R&D expenditure figures in their reports.”
‘Better late than never’: the interplay between green technology and age for firm growth (2017, background): “However, the impact of green technologies on firm growth has been minimally investigated, especially given the abundant literature on ‘standard’ innovation as a growth driver (Sutton, 1998; Botazzi and Secchi, 2006; Lotti et al., 2009; Coad and Holz, 2012).”
To be born is not enough: the key role of innovative start-ups (2016, unknown): “New firms entering the market are more likely to survive if they are set up on a large scale of production (Sutton 1997; Mata and Portugal 1994; Geroski 1995; Lotti et al. 2003, 2009).”
Quantile estimates of the impact of R&D intensity on firm performance (2012, methodology): “The inclusion of initial employment allows us to test Gibrat’s law (for a recent empirical investigation see Lotti et al. 2009 and the survey by Coad 2009).”
Establishment exits in Germany: the role of size and age (2012, methodology): “Empirical evidence for this is provided by Lotti et al. (2003, 2009) and Calvo (2006), among others.”
Drivers of Entrepreneurship and Post-Entry Performance of Newborn Firms in Developing Countries (2014, unknown): “From a theoretical point of view, Lucas (1978) was the first to propose a theory of the size distribution of firms based on the relative endowment of entrepreneurial talents.”
Is entrepreneurship necessarily good? Microeconomic evidence from developed and developing countries (2013, background): “Indeed, Michelacci and Silva (2007) found that the fraction of entrepreneurs who set up their businesses in the area where they were born was significantly higher than the corresponding share for dependent workers and, more importantly, that firms created by locals were bigger, more valuable, more c”
Failing firms and successful entrepreneurs: serial entrepreneurship as a temporal portfolio (2013, background): “Despite numerous disconfirmations, there are salient studies that still fail to reject Gibrat’s law (Audretsch et al. 2004; Botazzi et al. 2007; Contini and Revelli 1989; Lotti et al. 2009; Rodriguez et al. 2003; Wagner 1992; Yang and Huang 2005).”
Age and firm growth. Evidence from three European countries (2013, methodology): “11 First, we control for a measure of initial firm size, in the tradition of an extensive literature testing Gibrat’s Law (Gibrat, 1931) of proportional effects (see, among others, Mansfield, 1962; Hall, 1987; Evans, 1987a; Dunne et al., 1989; Fariñas and Moreno, 2000; Calvo, 2006; Lotti et al., 200”