Testing "Gibrat's Law" for Young Firms – Empirical Results for West Germany

By Matthias Almus. 2000

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What are the factors that affect innovation in growing SMEs (2012, background): “However, numerous empirical studies suggest that growth decreases with the size of the firm (Almus and Nerlinger, 2000).”
Effects of Microfinance on Micro and Small Enterprises (MSEs) Growth in Nigeria (2012, background): “Almus and Nerlinger (1999) use regional population density as their location variable, and found weak evidence that location affects growth.”
Location: A Neglected Determinant of Firm Growth (2007, background): “3 Almus and Nerlinger (2000) confirm this distributional assumption via kernal density estimates for German firms 1990-1996.”
Strategic entrepreneurship and small firm growth in Ghana (2014, background): “empirically in developed and developing countries (Almus and Nerlinger, 2000; Davidsson and Wiklund, 1999; Masakure et al., 2009; Orser et al., 2000; Stam, 2010; Weinzimmer et al., 1998; Wiklund et al., 2009).”
A Closer Look at Serial Growth Rate Correlation (2006, background): “Still other studies have failed to find any significant autocorrelation in growth rates (see Almus and Nerlinger (2000) for German start-ups, Bottazzi et al. (2002) for selected Italian manufacturing sectors, Geroski and Mazzucato (2002) for the US automobile industry, and Lotti et al. (2003) for ”
Training and Performance in Small Firms (2006, background): “However, there is a burgeoning literature that suggests fi rms do defy this law, in that fi rms realizing above average growth in one period may grow considerably in the following period; that size and growth are not independent (Almus and Nerlinger, 2000).”
High-growth SMEs versus non-high-growth SMEs: a discriminant analysis (2007, background): “Similarly, economic approaches to growth tend to focus only on the validity of the well-known Gibrat’s Law, according to which a firm’s growth is irrespective of its size, and on how firm age influences such relationships (Almus and Nerlinger 2000, Bechetti and Trovato 2002, Correa et al. 2003).”
Firm size, age, industrial networking, and growth: a case of the Korean manufacturing industry (2010, background): “Asian, and African countries: Dunne and Hughes (1994); Hart and Oulton (1996); Kumar (1985), and Reid (1993) using UK data; Contini and Revelli (1989) for Italian firms; Almus and Nerlinger (2000) ; Harhoff et al. (1998), and Wagner (1992) using West German data; Mata (1994) for Portuguese manufact”
The Determinants of Growth for Small and Medium Sized Firms. The Role of the Availability of External Finance (2002, methodology): “A traditional method used in the literature to test Gibrat’s law consists of three steps (Chesher, 1979; Almus and Nerlinger, 1999 ): (i) the division of the sample in subgroups (i.e.”
‘Credit Constraints and Determinants of the Cost of Capital in Vietnamese Manufacturing’ (2007, result): “The result is furthermore consistent with results reported in Mata et al. (1995) for Portuguese data, Audretsch et al. (1999) for Italian firms and Almus and Nerlinger (2000) using data for German manufacturing firms.”
Barriers to SME Growth in Slovenia (2001, background): “Alnus and Nerlinger (2000) show the same relationship in Germany, while Farinas and Moreno (2000) confirmed the relationship for Spanish data covering over 2,000 firms.”
Testing Gibrat’s Law for Small, Young and Innovating Firms (2006, background): “…1998; Storey and Tether, 1998; Almus and Nerlinger, 1999 2000; or Freel, 2000); the age, of the firm testing if the youngest grow bigger (Reid, 1992; Harhoff et al., 1998; Heshmati, 2000, in an explicit way, or Almus and Nerlinger, 2000 and Audretsch Final version accepted on August 13, 2004”
Explaining Firm Employment Growth: Does Location Matter? (2004, unknown): “Evans, 1987; Sutton, 1997; and Almus and Nerlinger, 2000 for extensive documentation).”