Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/74967 
Year of Publication: 
2003
Series/Report no.: 
LICOS Discussion Paper No. 135
Publisher: 
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, LICOS Centre for Transition Economics, Leuven
Abstract: 
We apply Suttons (1998) framework to compare the firm size distribution of two transition economies, Slovenia and Bulgaria with that of a market economy, Belgium. We find that there exists a minimum degree of inequality in the size of firms. In addition firm size inequality levels in Belgium and Slovenia are found to have comparable values while levels in Bulgaria remain considerably lower. Furthfirmore, we find that the industrial structure in a leading accession country is closest to the structure that we find in a market economy.
Subjects: 
firm size distribution
transition economies
manufacturing
JEL: 
L11
P2
L6
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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