Patterns of industrial dynamics in the manufacturing sector

Sun, Sizhong

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This chapter investigates the industrial dynamics in Chinese manufacturing sector, where we find two common properties that also hold in many previous studies, namely the Gibrat's Law and a typical tent shape of growth rate distribution. We further connect the growth rate distribution with the average firm size in a sector and the industrial policy regime shift that occurred in China in 2006. A 'big sector effect' and 'policy regime shift effect' are found, where bigger sectors tend to have growth rate distributions with a fatter tail but smaller dispersion and the policy regime shift also exerts similar impact.

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Regional Development and Economic Growth in China

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1793-3668

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World Scientific Publishing

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Singapore

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10.1142/9789814439855_0008