Investigating the exponential age distribution of firms

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While several plots of the aggregate age distribution suggest that firm age is exponentially distributed, we find some departures from the exponential benchmark. At the lower tail, we find that very young establishments are more numerous than expected, but they face high exit hazards. At the upper tail, the oldest firms are older than the exponential would have predicted. Furthermore, the age distribution of international airline companies displays multimodality. Although we focused on departures from the exponential, we found that the exponential was a useful reference point and endorse it as an appropriate benchmark for future work on industrial structure.

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• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Series: Economics Discussion Papers ; No. 2010-12

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft ; Firm Objectives, Organization, and Behavior: General ; Firm Performance: Size, Diversification, and Scope ; Production, Pricing, and Market Structure; Size Distribution of Firms
• Thema: Age distribution ; exponential distribution ; firm size distribution ; survival ; Unternehmensentwicklung ; Industriestruktur ; Lebenszyklus ; Statistische Verteilung ; Betriebsgrößenstruktur ; USA

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Coad, Alex
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW)
• (wo): Kiel
• (wann): 2010

Weitere Informationen

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/30151
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 10.03.2025, 11:42 MEZ