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RESEARCH PRODUCT
Do firms share the same functional form of their growth rate distribution? A statistical test
Salvatore MiccichèRosario N. MantegnaRosario N. MantegnaMauro GallegatiJ. T. LunardiFabrizio LilloFabrizio LilloFabrizio Lillosubject
Economics and EconometricsControl and OptimizationFOS: Physical sciencesDistribution (economics)Heterogeneous firmEDF testsFOS: Economics and businessMicroeconomicsGrowth rate distribution of individual firmEconomicsmedia_common.cataloged_instanceEuropean unionScalingmedia_commonStatistical hypothesis testingSettore SECS-S/06 - Metodi mat. dell'economia e Scienze Attuariali e FinanziarieStatistical Finance (q-fin.ST)EDF testbusiness.industryApplied MathematicsSettore FIS/01 - Fisica SperimentaleQuantitative Finance - Statistical FinanceProbability and statisticsVariance (accounting)Settore FIS/07 - Fisica Applicata(Beni Culturali Ambientali Biol.e Medicin)North American Industry Classification SystemHeterogeneous firmsPhysics - Data Analysis Statistics and ProbabilityNull hypothesisbusinessData Analysis Statistics and Probability (physics.data-an)description
We introduce a new statistical test of the hypothesis that a balanced panel of firms have the same growth rate distribution or, more generally, that they share the same functional form of growth rate distribution. We applied the test to European Union and US publicly quoted manufacturing firms data, considering functional forms belonging to the Subbotin family of distributions. While our hypotheses are rejected for the vast majority of sets at the sector level, we cannot rejected them at the subsector level, indicating that homogenous panels of firms could be described by a common functional form of growth rate distribution.
| year | journal | country | edition | language |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014-01-01 |