Uncertainty and the size distribution of rewards from innovation

Journal of Evolutionary Economics

Volumn 10, Issue 1-2, 2000, Pages 175-200

  Scherer, F M ^a   Harhoff, Dietmar ^b   Kukies, Jörg ^c  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Gibrat's Law; Innovation; Risk; Skew distributions; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034423944     PISSN: 09369937     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s001910050011     Document Type: Article

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