On the size distribution of business firms

By J. Growiec, Fabio Pammolli, Massimo Riccaboni, H. Eugene Stanley. 2008

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Muppets and gazelles: political and methodological biases in entrepreneurship research (2014, neutral): “Lucas (1978) presents a useful starting point for analyzing these interactions.”
Bureaucracy and Entrepreneurship: Workplace Effects on Entrepreneurial Entry (2007, background): “Others link entrepreneurial activity to individual differences in entrepreneurial ability (Lucas, 1978; Dunn and Holtz-Eakin, 2000), the need for achievement (McClelland, 1961), and other aspects of personality (Zhao and Seibert, 2006).”
A Theory of Intergenerational Mobility (2018, positive): “Greater than proportional rewards may be the result of a superstar economy (Rosen 1981), complementarities within firms that drive up the salaries of top performers (Lucas 1978; Rosen 1982), or positive assortative matching between workers and firms (Sattinger 1979).”
Entrepreneurship and Liquidity Constraints: Evidence from Sweden (2008, positive): “Following (Lucas 1978), a constrained borrower enters entrepreneurship if the expected earnings net of capital costs from doing so exceeds that from paid employment, w.”
Firm Size Distribution under Horizontal and Vertical R&D (2010, background): “regards empirical evidence, an upward trend in average sales per rm and a downward trend in the variance of sales per rm over the long run are reported by, respectively, Jovanovic (1993) and Castro and Clementi (2009).”
Religion and Entrepreneurship (2007, background): “…individual (homo oeconomicus) to become an entrepreneur in terms of the model of occupational choice, where the income generated from entrepreneurship is compared to the wage earned as an employee (Lucas, 1978; Kihlstrom and Laffont, 1979; Holmes and Schmitz, 1990; Parker, 2004; Jovanovic, 1994).”
Dynamic Capabilities and Entrepreneurial Management in Large Organizations: Toward a Theory of the (Entrepreneurial) Firm (2016, background): “Robert Lucas (1978) showed how the introduction of “managerial talent” into a neoclassical model of the firm leads to an empirically plausible size distribution.”
Foreign direct investment, institutional quality, economic freedom and entrepreneurship in emerging markets (2014, neutral): “The second variable is GDP per capita (Klapper & Love, 2010; Lucas, 1978).”
Firm Growth : a Survey (2007, neutral): “Although Simon and Bonini (1958) maintained that the “lognormal generally fits quite well” (1958: p611), they preferred to consider the lognormal distribution as a special case in the wider family of ‘Yule’ distributions.”
Entrepreneurial exit and entrepreneurial engagement (2011, background): “Small Business Economics 15(2):105–125 Lucas Jr RE (1978) On the size distribution of business firms.”
Technical Change and Industrial Dynamics as Evolutionary Processes (2009, background): “…nested into collectively consistent, highly sophisticated, plans of intertemporally maximizing agents [and this is indeed the spirit by which Lucas (1978) or Hopenhein (1992), for example, try to account for the evidence on skewed distributions of firms’ sizes, positive rates of entry and…”
The Determinants of Rising Informality in Brazil: Evidence from Gross Worker Flows (2007, background): “3 style of Lucas (1978), Jovanovic (1982) and Evans and Leighton (1989), and argues that, as a first approximation, the sector should be seen as an unregulated, largely voluntary self-employed/micro firm sector.3 While the informal sector in all likelihood contains both types of actors,…”