Macroeconomic fluctuations and the firms' rate of growth distribution: evidence from UK and US quoted companies
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Subbotin Distribution; Corporate Growth; Business Cycle; Financial Fragility;All these keywords.
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- C16 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Econometric and Statistical Methods and Methodology: General - - - Econometric and Statistical Methods; Specific Distributions
- E32 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Prices, Business Fluctuations, and Cycles - - - Business Fluctuations; Cycles
- G30 - Financial Economics - - Corporate Finance and Governance - - - General
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-BEC-2007-01-28 (Business Economics)
- NEP-MAC-2007-01-28 (Macroeconomics)
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