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The Age Distribution of Firms in Ireland, 1960-2009

Abstract. This paper studies the age distribution of firms in Ireland from 1961 to 2009 using data on over 159,000 firms. I build a model which mixes a lognormal distribution of firm size with an exponential distribution of firm age to explain the evolution of these data. The model is fitted using maximum likelihood estimation, [...]

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2009 10 28 Papers
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The Dossing times accuses McWilliams of Abuse of Statistics

While I wouldn’t go as far as Simon from The Dossing Times in accusing David McWilliams of coming to “plain silly” conclusions which represent an “abuse of statistics”, I do think Simon has a much simpler (and less time and data intensive) method of discovering why the increase looked so big than mine: McWilliams just [...]

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