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Corporate growth and industrial dynamics: evidence from French manufacturing

Giulio Bottazzi Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Pisa, ItalyCorrespondence[email protected]
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Alex Coad Max Planck Institute of Economics, Jena, Germany; Centre d’Economie de la Sorbonne, University Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, Paris, France
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Nadia Jacoby Centre d’Economie de la Sorbonne, University Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, Paris, France
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Angelo Secchi University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy
Pages 103-116 | Published online: 28 Apr 2009

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