On the mean/variance relationship of the firm size distribution: Evidence and some theory

Gaffeo, E; Di Guilmi, C; Gallegati, M; Russo, A

On the mean/variance relationship of the firm size distribution: Evidence and some theory

Gaffeo, E Di Guilmi, C

Gallegati, M Russo, A

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Citation:: Ecological Complexity, 2012, 11 pp. 109 - 117
Issue Date:: 2012-09-01

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dc.contributor.author	Gaffeo, E	en_US
dc.contributor.author	Di Guilmi, C https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7786-039X	en_US
dc.contributor.author	Gallegati, M	en_US
dc.contributor.author	Russo, A	en_US
dc.date.issued	2012-09-01	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	Ecological Complexity, 2012, 11 pp. 109 - 117	en_US
dc.identifier.issn	1476-945X	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/22797
dc.description.abstract	Firm-level data for a small sample of European countries are used to provide evidence of a positive linear relationship between the mean and the variance of firms' size at a sectoral level, an empirical regularity known in mathematical biology and ecology as Taylor power law. We recur to computational experiments to show how this empirical fact can be fruitfully employed to discriminate amongst alternative theoretical explanations of firms' growth. © 2012 Elsevier B.V.	en_US
dc.relation.ispartof	Ecological Complexity	en_US
dc.relation.isbasedon	10.1016/j.ecocom.2012.05.001	en_US
dc.subject.classification	Ecology	en_US
dc.title	On the mean/variance relationship of the firm size distribution: Evidence and some theory	en_US
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pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Business
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Abstract:

Firm-level data for a small sample of European countries are used to provide evidence of a positive linear relationship between the mean and the variance of firms' size at a sectoral level, an empirical regularity known in mathematical biology and ecology as Taylor power law. We recur to computational experiments to show how this empirical fact can be fruitfully employed to discriminate amongst alternative theoretical explanations of firms' growth. © 2012 Elsevier B.V.

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