The Firm Size Distribution across Countries and Skill-Biased Change in Entrepreneurial Technology
研究发现富裕国家的企业规模均值和离散度更大，且美国企业随时间增长；通过构建无摩擦一般均衡模型，解释了技术变化对跨国企业规模分布差异的一半影响。
Development is associated with systematic changes in the firm size distribution. I document that the mean and dispersion of firm size are larger in rich countries, and increased over time for US firms. To analyze the firm size-development link, I construct a frictionless general equilibrium model of occupational choice with skill-biased change in entrepreneurial technology (i.e., technical progress favors better entrepreneurs). The model accounts for key aspects of the US experience with only changes in aggregate technology. It attributes half the variation in mean and dispersion of firm size across countries to technical change. Distortions also affect the size distribution.