De Fabritiis, Gianni; Riccaboni, Massimo; Pammolli, Fabio - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2003
We study size and growth distributions of products and business firms in the context of a given industry. Firm size … growth is analyzed in terms of two basic mechanisms, i.e. the increase of the number of new elementary business units and … their size growth. We find a power-law relationship between size and the variance of growth rates for both firms and …