Gibrat's Law and Market Selection
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Keywords
Gibrat' Law; manufacturing; industrial dynamics; entry; survival; selection bias;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- L11 - Industrial Organization - - Market Structure, Firm Strategy, and Market Performance - - - Production, Pricing, and Market Structure; Size Distribution of Firms
- L60 - Industrial Organization - - Industry Studies: Manufacturing - - - General
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-ENT-2004-07-11 (Entrepreneurship)
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