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Repeated matching, career concerns, and firm size
I propose a two-period matching model of firms and managers to show that managerial career concerns may not guarantee assortative matching in the...
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Mixtures of log-normal distributions in the mid-scale range of firm-size variables
In econophysics, firm sales and other firm-size variables follow a power-law distribution in the large-scale range and a log-normal distribution in...
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Regulation, entrepreneurship, and firm size
We empirically investigate the theory that regulatory growth within an industry disproportionately burdens small businesses relative to their larger...
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Firm Size, Productivity, EU Funds, and Corruption
The Covid-19 pandemic and the resulting economic crisis have led to structural rearrangements in the business sector. Most companies were hit by the...
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Firm Size, Rate of Return on Capital, and Increasing Returns to Scale—The Japanese Financial and Information Communication Service Sectors—
Parallel to the increasing income inequalitiesInequality in OECD countries, a few large firms have become mega giants, generating superstar...
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Hierarchy and the size of a firm
In this note, we apply weighted hierarchical games of cooperative game theory to the problem of optimal firm size of the firm. In particular, we...
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Profits crisis: evolving patterns of firm size and performance in traditional U.S. industries
With the arrival of the new millennium, many industries across the developed economies are increasingly facing v olatile, u ncertain, c omplex, and a mbig...
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The Nonlinear Relationship Between Firm Size and Growth in the Automotive Industry
The automotive industry dominates the economy of the west part of Romania, making necessary the identification of firm growth drivers. Accordingly,...
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Firm size populations modeled through competition-colonization dynamics
The Firm Ecosystem Model is a dynamical model based on the empirical finding that firm characteristics, such as the tendency to innovate and...
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Power Laws with Different Exponents in Firm-Size Variables
In Chap. 8, we discuss the relationship between the power-law distributions observed in the large-scale range of different types of firm-size...
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Threshold-dependent tax enforcement and the size distribution of firms: evidence from Germany
This paper investigates firms’ responses to threshold-dependent intensity of tax enforcement. We use administrative tax return data over the entire...
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Efficiency in electricity distribution in Sweden and the effects of small-scale generation, electric vehicles and dynamic tariffs
We measure the cost of technical inefficiency for local electricity distribution firms in Sweden using Stochastic Frontier Analysis, and explore how...
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A benchmarking of Zambia’s manufacturing finance against selected newly industrialised countries
This study benchmarks Zambia’s manufacturing finance against selected Newly Industrialised Countries (NICs) to identify and remediate Zambia’s...
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Energy abundance, the geographical distribution of manufacturing, and international trade
One of the main challenges of the current energy transition is how countries can deliver a low-carbon future while at the same time ensuring they can...
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The Impact of U.S. Monetary Policy on Foreign Firms
This paper uses cross-country firm-level data to explore the impact of U.S. monetary policy shocks on firms’ sales, investment, and employment. We...
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Enterprise Informality in India: The Blind Spots in Public Policy
An essential characteristic of firm size distribution patterns in develo** countries including India, is a bimodal distribution with a “missing...
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Income distribution, productivity growth, and workers’ bargaining power in an agent-based macroeconomic model
We investigate the effect of labor productivity growth, workers’ bargaining power, and legal minimum wage revision rules on income distribution in a...
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The Expansion of Incentive (Performance-Based) Regulation of Electricity Distribution and Transmission in the United States
I examine developments in the application of performance-based regulation (PBR) to electricity distribution and transmission in the United States....
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The moderating effect of firm age on capital structure choices: evidence from emerging markets
This research analyses how a firm’s age moderates the link between emerging market firm characteristics such as their profitability, firm size, asset...
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The impact of energy transition on distribution network costs and effectiveness of yardstick competition: an empirical analysis for the Netherlands
We assess the impact of regional differences related to energy transition on average costs and allowed revenues for a panel of Dutch electricity...
