The variance of corporate growth rates

John Sutton

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 2003, vol. 324, issue 1, 45-48

Abstract: A model is proposed which offers a candidate explanation for the power-law relation between firm size and the variance of growth rates reported by Stanley et al. in 1996. (A full version of this paper appears in vol. 312 (2002), pp. 577–590 of this journal).

Keywords: Corporate growth; Partitions; Scaling (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2003
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DOI: 10.1016/S0378-4371(03)00004-9

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