On the Evolution of the Firm Size Distribution: Facts and Theory

By Luis M. B. Cabral, J. Mata. 2001

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Does Input Quality Drive Measured Differences in Firm Productivity (2011, background): “Iranzo et al. use Italian data and find that the standard deviation of worker wage fixed effects αi, at the firm level, contributes positively to firm output.”
Innovation across Europe: how important are institutional differences? (2011, background): “Given this evidence and the previous discussion we expect more stringent legal systems to have a positive effect on innovation particularly on industries that use patents as their appropriation strategy.”
Capital Structure, Corporate Taxation and Firm Age (2012, positive): “To summarize, our model implies a negative relationship between the debt ratio and ﬁrm age if ﬁrms are equity constrained in the founding stage, which is also documented in the ﬁrm growth literature (see, e.g., Cabral and Mata 2003).”
Optimal Lending Contracts and Firm Dynamics (2004, neutral): “…Hubbard and Petersen (1988), among others, view financial constraints as an explanation for the dynamic behaviour of aggregate investment, and Cabral and Mata (1996) are able to fit reasonably well the size distribution of Portuguese manufacturing firms by estimating a simple model of…”
Invariances and Diversities in the Patterns of Industrial Evolution: Some Evidence from Italian Manufacturing Industries (2007, background): “Within a vast literature, see Hart and Prais (1956), Simon and Bonini (1958), Steindl (1965), Quandt (1966), Ijiri and Simon (1977) and more recently Stanley et al. (1995), Axtell (2001), Cabral and Mata (2003) and for an extensive critical review Kleiber and Kotz (2003).”
Productivity, profitability and financial performance (2008, background): “Stimulated by the empirical results, several theoretical studies have been developed to incorporate these ideas into formal models of firm dynamics (Cooley and Quadrini, 2001; Cabral and Mata, 2003).”
Is entrepreneurship necessarily good? Microeconomic evidence from developed and developing countries (2013, background): “For instance, Evans and Jovanovic (1989) found that the initial level of assets strongly influences the probability of self-employment (Blanchflower and Oswald, 1998; Cabral and Mata, 2003; Hurst and Lusardi, 2004; Kan and Tsai, 2006).”
Financing Constraints and Entrepreneurship (2009, result): “A similar concern may apply to results showing that those who are less wealthy start smaller firms (Cabral and Mata 2003).”
Firm Age and the Evolution of Borrowing Costs: Evidence from Japanese Small Firms (2010, background): “Also, as is argued by Cabral and Mata (2003), it is natural to think that researchers need to have dynamic data set at their hands if they seriously want to investigate the evolution of variables that are related to firm age, independently of whether they are real or financial ones.”