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Provedor de dados: 	31	
País: 	United States	
Título: 	Does Gibrat's Law Hold Amongst Dairy Farmers in Northern Ireland?	
Autores: 	Kostov,   Philip; Patton,   Myles; Moss,   Joan E.; McErlean,   Seamus.	
Data: 	2005-09-21	
Ano: 	2005	
Palavras-chave: 	Gibrat's law; Quantile regression; Sample selection bias; Integrated Conditional Moments test; Agricultural and Food Policy; C12; C14; O49; Q19.	
Resumo: 	This paper tests whether the Law of Proportionate Effects (Gibrat, 1931), which states that farms grow at a rate that is independent of their size, holds for the dairy farms in Northern Ireland. Previous studies have tended to concentrate on testing whether the law holds for all farms. The methodology used in this study permits investigation of whether the law holds for some farms or all farms according to their size. The approach used avoids the subjective splitting of samples, which tends to bias results. The finding shows that the Gibrat law does hold except in the case of small farms. This is in accordance with previous findings that Gibrat's law tends to hold when only larger farms are considered, but tends to fail when smaller farms are included in the analysis. Implications and further extensions, as well as some alternatives to the proposed methodology are discussed.	
Tipo: 	Conference Paper or Presentation	
Idioma: 	Inglês	
Identificador: 	17598

http://purl.umn.edu/24775	
Editor: 	AgEcon Search	
Relação: 	European Association of Agricultural Economists&gt;2005 International Congress, August 23-27, 2005, Copenhagen, Denmark

Contributed Paper	
Formato: 	12

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