Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/101517 
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Year of Publication: 
1994
Series/Report no.: 
Diskussionsbeiträge - Serie II No. 232
Publisher: 
Universität Konstanz, Sonderforschungsbereich 178 - Internationalisierung der Wirtschaft, Konstanz
Abstract: 
The mortality of German joint stock companies is investigated using life table techniques. An EDB-distribution or Hjorth-distribution and an exponential distribution are fitted to the hazard rates, whereby the population is divided into small and large firms. Survivor functions and life expectancy functions are presented. The life expectancy of all firms is circa 40 years. In the absence of data, it is recommended that the life expectancy of a firm be estimated as the reciprocal value of the proportion of firms that have disappeared from the market.
Subjects: 
force of mortality
IDB-distribution
exponential distribution
value of a firm
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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