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This paper traces the time series (?Growth of Firms?) tradition in the study of market structure and looks at how recent studies on entry and the size distribution of firms have modified thinking in this area.
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Keywords: Robert Gibrat ; market structure ; firm size ; stochastic ; industry structure ; Inegalites Economiques ; the Law of Proportional Effect. ; Other versions of this item:
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Steven Klepper & Elizabeth Graddy, 1990.
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Michael D. Whinston, 1988.
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