Gibrat's law and persistence of growth in Greek manufacturing

Small Business Economics

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 191-202

  Fotopoulos, Georgios ^a   Giotopoulos, Ioannis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Age groups; Gibrat's law; Persistence of growth; Size groups

Indexed keywords

EID: 77955229439     PISSN: 0921898X     EISSN: 15730913     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11187-008-9163-5     Document Type: Article

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