Testing Gibrat’s Law for Small, Young and Innovating Firms

By Jose-Luis Calvo. 2006

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Management of Technology and Innovation

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Does innovativeness reduce startup survival rates (2015, background): “…there is apositive association between theinnovativenessof ﬁ rms and their subsequentsurvival(Arrighetti and Vivarelli,1999; Audretsch,1995; Calvo, 2006;Ce ﬁ s and Marsili, 2005, 2006, 2011, 2012; Colombelli et al., 2013; Helmers and Rogers, 2010; Sarkar et al., 2006; Wagner and…”
Drivers of Entrepreneurship and Post-Entry Performance of Newborn Firms in Developing Countries (2014, unknown): “negatively with growth (see Evans, 1987; Dunne and Hughes, 1994; Calvo 2006; Coad, Segarra and Teurel, 2013): experienced, mature firms are more able to deal with market dynamics and so more likely to stay in the market ; however, once they have reached (or being very close to) the MES, they do not ”
Determinants and Dimensions of Firm Growth (2009, unknown): “Other studies which incorporated different countries and industries also indicate a negative effect of size on firm growth (Almus & Nerlinger, 2000; Bottazzi & Secchi, 2003; Calvo, 2006; Dunne & Hughes, 1994; Goddard, Wilson & Blandon, 2002; McPherson, 1996).”
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”
Defending Gibrat’s Law as a long-run regularity (2007, unknown): “…sophisticated econometric techniques able to take into account both sample selection and heteroskedasticity problems 1 (Hall, 1987; Evans, 1987a and 1987b; Dunne, Roberts and Samuelson, 1989; Dunne and Hughes, 1994; Hart and Oulton, 1996; Audretsch, Santarelli and Vivarelli, 1999; Calvo, 2006).”
Is entrepreneurship necessarily good? Microeconomic evidence from developed and developing countries (2013, background): “Consistently, a firm’s age turns out to be positively correlated with survival and negatively with growth (Evans, 1987; Dunne and Hughes, 1994; Yasuda, 2005; Calvo, 2006).”
Performance and size: empirical evidence from Portuguese SMEs (2008, background): “Moreover, several studies (Picot and Dupuy 1998; Yasuda 2005; Calvo 2006 ) evidence that expenditure on innovation influences the growth of SMEs positively.”
What are the factors that affect innovation in growing SMEs (2012, background): “Calvo (2006) investigated whether small, young and innovating firms experienced greater employment growth than other Spanish firms during the period between 1990 and 2000.”
Muppets and gazelles: political and methodological biases in entrepreneurship research (2014, unknown): “It has been robustly shown that small firms do not necessarily follow Gibrat’s law (Calvo, 2006; Hart and Oulton, 1996), but as the discussion of levels and rates highlighted, this is not necessarily a good thing, and could be a sign of weakness if firms started below the minimum efficient size in…”
Transnational ties and performance of immigrant entrepreneurs: the role of home-country conditions (2014, methodology): “We adopted the empirical firm growth model which was first introduced by Evans (1987a, 1987b) and now is commonly used in firm growth studies (Das 1995; Heshmati 2001; Calvo 2006; Coad and Rao 2008; Cucculelli and Ermini 2012):”
High-growth entrepreneurial firms in Africa: a quantile regression approach (2010, background): “2005), positive (Calvo 2006) or have no impact on employment (Benavente and Lauterbach 2008 for Chile).”
Like milk or wine: Does firm performance improve with age? (2013, background): “Some authors have investigated age effects by focusing specifically on samples of young firms (Calvo, 2006; Garnsey et al., 2006; Stam and Wennberg, 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.”
Strategic entrepreneurship and small firm growth in Ghana (2014, background): “, 2009; Wolf, 1999), it contrasts with the positive association found by others (Calvo, 2006; Freel and Robson, 2004; Yang and Huang, 2005).”
The Resource-Based Theory of the Firm and Firm Survival (2008, methodology): “Thus, drawing on the Resource-Based View of the Firm and the Industrial Organization literature (Almus and Nerlinger, 1999; Calvo, 2006; Cefis and Marsili, 2006), we make the following hypotheses:”