The Size Distribution of Businesses. Part I: A Benchmark Case

John Sutton
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John Sutton: London School of Economics

No 452, Working Paper Series from Research Institute of Industrial Economics

Abstract: This paper examines the evolution of a skew distribution of firm sizes from the viewpoint of the 'Bounds' approach to market structure. It confines attention to the role played by non-strategic factors (statistical independence, and cost side effects). A model is proposed, which leads to a prediction regarding the least skew size distribution which is likely to be observed. This distribution provides a benchmark relative to which the impact of strategic effects on the form of the size distribution may be assessed.

Keywords: DISTRIBUTION; ENTERPRISES (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D21 L11 L15 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 50 pages
Date: 1996-03
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