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| Title: | | Firm growth and scaling of growth rate variance in multiplant firms  |
| Authors: | | Coad, Alex |
| Issue Date: | | 2007 |
| Series/Report no.: | | Jena economic research papers 2007,101 |
| Abstract: | | While Gibrats Law assumes that growth rate variance is independent of size, empirical work has usually found a negative relationship between growth rate variance and firm growth. Using data on French manufacturing firms, we observe a relatively low, but statistically significant, negative relationship between firm size and growth rate variance. Furthermore, we observe that growth rate variance does not decrease monotonically the more plants a firm possesses, which is at odds with a number of theoretical models. |
| Subjects: | | Growth rate variance Firm growth Scaling relationship Multiplant firms Gibrats Law |
| JEL: | | L25 L20 |
| Document Type: | | Working Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | | Jena Economic Research Papers, MPI für Ökonomik
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