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A New Method for Measuring Tail Exponents of Firm Size Distributions [PDF]

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We propose a new method for estimating the power-law exponents of firm size variables. Our focus is on how to empirically identify a range in which a firm size variable follows a power-law distribution.
Fujimoto, S.   +3 more
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Testing Gibrat’s law: empirical evidence from panel unit root tests of turkish firms [PDF]

open access: yes
The purpose of this paper is to use panel unit root tests to see if Gibrat’s law holds in Turkey. Gibrat's Law establishes that firm growth is a random walk, it means that the probability of a given proportional change in size during a specified period ...
Aslan, Alper
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Employer-Sponsored Insurance Under Health Reform: Reports of Its Demise Are Premature [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
Compares estimated changes in employer health coverage and total spending by firm size; offer rates among small firms, and premium trends under the 2010 healthcare reform law and without reform.
Bowen Garrett, Matthew Buettgens
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The ethical infrastructure of legal practice in larger law firms: values, policy and behaviour [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
The article examines the impact of the cultures and organisational structures of large law firms on individual lawyers' ethics. The paper suggests that large law firms in Australia should consciously design and implement 'ethical infrastructures' to both
Evans, Adrian   +4 more
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Power Laws in Firm Size and Openness to Trade: Measurement and Implications [PDF]

open access: yes
Existing estimates of power laws in firm size typically ignore the impact of international trade. Using a simple theoretical framework, we show that international trade systematically affects the distribution of firm size: the power law exponent among ...
Andrei A. Levchenko   +2 more
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On the mechanics of firm growth [PDF]

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Given a common technology for replicating blueprints, high-quality blueprints will be replicated more quickly than low-quality blueprints. If quality begets quality, and firms are identifed with collections of blueprints derived from the same initial ...
Erzo G.J. Luttmer
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Corporate Norms and Contemporary Law Firm Practice [PDF]

open access: yes, 2002
Larry Mitchell\u27s book describes the movement toward share price maximization by corporate managers. More intensive market competition both domestically and abroad has led managers to believe that their corporations have little choice but to focus on ...
Regan, Milton C.
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Firm growth and scaling of growth rate variance in multiplant firms [PDF]

open access: yes
While Gibrat's Law assumes that growth rate variance is independent of size, empirical work has usually found a negative relationship between growth rate variance and firm growth. Using data on French manufacturing firms, we observe a relatively low, but
Alex Coad
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New Approaches to Researching AI Crime: Institutionalization of Digital Criminology

open access: yesJournal of Digital Technologies and Law
Objective: the article deals with modern scientific approaches to the “digital society”, identifies new criminological perspectives, such as that of digital criminology in an ever-changing hybrid world, in the scientific study of the potential use of AI ...
F. Spyropoulos
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Inside the Italian Law Firms

open access: yesSortuz, 2017
Several studies have demonstrated that there is a correlation between the number of Italian lawyers and the litigation rate in the field of civil law. Yet, there are no empirical studies about the functioning of law firms and the connection between the latter and courts of justice.
openaire   +3 more sources

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