Resende, Marcelo - In: Economia 5 (2004) 2, pp. 221-268
The paper investigates the validity of Gibrats law in the context of the Brazilian manufacturing industry during the … period 1995-97. The referred hypothesis of independence between firm growth and size has as important implications, in the … leading formulations, the lognormality of the distribution of firm size and the linearity of the relationship between size and …