Scandinavian Working Papers in Economics
HUI Working Papers,
HUI Research
No 45: When is Gibrat's Law a Law?
Sven-Olov Daunfeldt () and Niklas Elert
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Sven-Olov Daunfeldt: The Ratio Institute (RATIO), Postal: P.O. Box 3203, SE-103 64 Stockholm, Sweden and, Department of Economics, Dalarna University, SE-781 88 Borlänge, Sweden.
Niklas Elert: The Ratio Institute (RATIO), Postal: P.O. Box 3203, SE-103 64 Stockholm, Sweden
Abstract: The purpose of this paper is to investigate if the industry context matters for whether Gibrat's law is rejected or not using a dataset that consists of all limited firms in 5-digit NACE-industries in Sweden during 1998-2004. The results reject Gibrat's law on an aggregate level, since small firms grow faster than large firms. However, Gibrat's law is confirmed about as often as it is rejected when industry-specific regressions are estimated. It is also found that the industry context - e.g., minimum e¢ cient scale, market concentration rate, and number of young firms in the industry - matters for whether Gibrat's law is rejected or not.
Keywords: Firm growth; firm size; job creation; small firms
38 pages, November 26, 2010
- Published as
- Sven-Olov Daunfeldt and Niklas Elert, (2013), 'When is Gibrat's Law a Law?', Small Business Economics, vol 41, no 1, pages 133-147
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