French butchers don't do quantum physics

Arnaud Manas

Economics Letters, 2009, vol. 103, issue 2, 101-106

Abstract: The distribution of growth rates of the monthly sales of French butchers appears to be a Normal-Laplace mixture. Quantum physics mechanisms do not seem to be relevant here while a simple model provides an explanation for some unnoticed features.

Keywords: Firm; growth; rates; Gibrat's; law; Disaggregated; data; Laplace; distribution; Bose-Einstein; distribution (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009
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