Does classical competition explain the statistical features of firm growth?

Economics Letters

Volumn 101, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 272-274

  Alfarano, Simone ^a   Milaković, Mishael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Classical competition; Firm growth rates; Laplace distribution; Maximum entropy; Profit rates; Statistical equilibrium; Subbotin distribution

Indexed keywords

EID: 55549103313     PISSN: 01651765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2008.09.001     Document Type: Article

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