Firm size distributions and stochastic growth models: A comparison between ICT and Mechanical Italian Companies

Statistical Methods and Applications

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 391-414

  Ganugi, Piero ^a   Grossi, Luigi ^b   Crosato, Lisa ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÀ CATTOLICA DEL SACRO CUORE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Concentration; Firm size; Gibrat law; Lognormal distribution; Pareto distribution

Indexed keywords

EID: 34250352514     PISSN: 16182510     EISSN: 1613981X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10260-003-0073-z     Document Type: Article

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