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JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC DYNAMICS & CONTROL
卷 103, 期 -, 页码 63-82出版社
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.jedc.2019.01.009
关键词
Firm growth; Gibrat's model; Law of proportionate effect; Laplace distribution; Variance Gamma process
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资金
- Japan Society for the Promotion of Science [25-7736, 17H02041, 18K12788]
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [18K12788] Funding Source: KAKEN
Recent empirical studies have shown that firm growth rate distribution is not Gaussian but closely follows a Laplace distribution. This robust feature of the growth rate distribution challenges existing models based on Gibrat's model because it predicts a Gaussian distribution. First, we analyze more than 100,000 Japanese firms and empirically show that the Laplace shape can be observed for the Japanese firms. Then, by using the theory of stochastic processes, we theoretically show that the absence of jumps causes the discrepancy between Gibrat's model and the Laplace shape. In particular, based on the Laplace shape and the law of proportionate effect, we show that the firm growth process is a jump process. In other words, firm growth cannot be explained by the consequence of many small shocks but is determined by a few large jumps. The widely observed Laplace distribution reflects this jump property of firm growth dynamics. (C) 2019 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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