Döpke, Jörg; Funke, Michael; Holly, Sean; Weber, Sebastian - 2005
We establish some stylised facts for Germany’s business cycle at the level of the firm. Based on longitudinal firm … distribution of growth rates of firm’s real sales is influenced by business cycle conditions. In particular, the cross …-section skewness of real sales changes is strongly counter-cyclical. The results confirm most of the findings for the UK and the US by …