Corporate growth and industrial dynamics: Evidence from french manufacturing

Applied Economics

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 103-116

  Bottazzi, Giulio ^a   Coad, Alex ^b,c   Jacoby, Nadia ^c   Secchi, Angelo ^d  

^a SCUOLA SUPERIORE SANT ANNA   (Italy)

^b Growth and Public Policy   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITÉ PARIS 1 PANTHÉON SORBONNE   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIRM SIZE; GROWTH RATE; HOMOGENEITY; MANUFACTURING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SIZE DISTRIBUTION;

FRANCE;

EID: 78650769732     PISSN: 00036846     EISSN: 14664283     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00036840802400454     Document Type: Article

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