The Law of Proportionate Effect: A test based on the graphical model methodology
Marco Guerzoni,
Luigi Riso and
Marco Vivarelli ()
No 514, Working Papers from University of Milano-Bicocca, Department of Economics
Abstract:
Using both regression analysis and an unsupervised graphical model approach (never applied before to this issue), we confirm the rejection of the Gibrat’s law 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 re-shaped (smaller) population of the survived most efficient firms is in line with the Law of Proportionate Effect; this evidence reconciles early and current literature testing Gibrat’s law and may have interesting implications in terms of both applied and theoretical research.
Keywords: Gibrat’s Law; firm survival; market selection; firm growth (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: L11 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 20
Date: 2023-03
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