Testing Gibrat's law: Empirical evidence from a panel of portuguese manufacturing firms

International Journal of the Economics of Business

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 65-81

  Oliveira, Blandina ^a   Fortunato, Adelino ^b  

^a POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE OF LEIRIA   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COIMBRA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Firm Growth; Gibrat's Law; GMM System Estimator; Panel Unit Root Tests

Indexed keywords

EID: 33645151443     PISSN: 13571516     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13571510500519996     Document Type: Article

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