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Firm dynamics [electronic resource] : variation in profitability across Canadian firms of different sizes, 2000 to 2009 / Amélie Lafrance.
Are small firms more profitable than large firms? This paper uses a longitudinal firm-level dataset to explore the financial performance of firms across size classes, and across industries and provinces during the 2000-to-2009 period. It also examines the volatility of profitability across firm size classes. The results show that the relationship between firm size and profitability follows an inverted u-shaped curve, profitability rises up to a relatively small firm size class and falls after that threshold has been reached. This relationship prevails across most industries and provinces and over most of the post-2000 period. Furthermore, on an intragroup basis, smaller firms tend to have much more variability in profit rates.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781100209920 (electronic bk.)
- Physical Description: 1 electronic text (28 p.) : digital file.
- Publisher: Ottawa, Ont. : Statistics Canada, Economic Analysis Division, 2012
Content descriptions
| General Note: | "July 2012." Issued as part of the desLibris documents collection. |
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 28). |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Abstract -- Executive summary -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Profitability measures and data source -- 3. Business sector profitability rates -- 3.1 Industry dimension -- 3.2 Regional dimension -- 4. Profitability and firm size -- 4.1 Business sector dimension -- 4.2 Profitability and firm size, by industry and province -- 4.3 Industry -- 4.4 Region -- 5. Variations in profitability, by firm size -- 6. Conclusion -- 7. Appendix -- 7.1 Data source -- References. |
| System Details Note: | Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
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