GIBRAT'S LAW AND GROWTH OF AGRICULTURAL MARKETING COOPERATIVES

Robert A. Skinner and Thomas Sporleder ()

No 278288, 1979 Annual Meeting, July 29-August 1, Pullman, Washington from American Agricultural Economics Association (New Name 2008: Agricultural and Applied Economics Association)

Abstract: Gibrat's law is that growth rate and size are independent. Various empirical tests of the validity of Gibrat's law for regional marketing cooperatives in the United States are presented. The empirical tests do not support Gibrat's law and support the hypothesis of minimum efficient size among marketing cooperatives.

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Pages: 13
Date: 1979-07
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.278288

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