Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/319252 
Year of Publication: 
2024
Citation: 
[Journal:] Small Business Economics [ISSN:] 1573-0913 [Volume:] 64 [Issue:] 2 [Publisher:] Springer US [Place:] New York, NY [Year:] 2024 [Pages:] 475-488
Publisher: 
Springer US, New York, NY
Abstract: 
Using both regression analysis and an unsupervised graphical model approach (never applied before to this issue), we confirm the rejection of Gibrat’s Law (stating that a firm’s growth is independent of that firm’s initial size) when our firm-level data are considered over the entire investigated period, while the opposite is true when we allow for market selection; indeed, the growth behavior of the surviving most efficient firms is in line with Gibrat’s Law. This evidence reconciles early and current literature and may have interesting implications in terms of both theoretical research and policy suggestions regarding subsidies to small firms, which do not necessarily grow faster than their larger counterparts.
Subjects: 
Gibrat’s Law
Firm survival
Market selection
Firm growth
JEL: 
L11
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Document Type: 
Article
Document Version: 
Published Version

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