Generalizing Gibrat: Reasonable multiplicative models of firm dynamics

JASSS

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2004, Pages

  Richiardi, Matteo ^a  

^a Centre for Employment Studies   (Italy)

Author keywords

Entry; Exit; Firm growth; Gibrat's Law

Indexed keywords

EID: 15944378888     PISSN: 14607425     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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