The Statistical Analysis of Industry Structure: An Application to Food Industries
产业结构的统计分析：食品行业应用
A stochastic model is used to analyze the changing size distributions of large firms in the food processing and chain store food distributing industries during 1948–1958. The model is shown to have certain predictive usefulness for anticipating changes in these distributions; however, the predictive value of the equilibrium distribution is questioned. An index of size mobility is developed from the model and the value of this index computed for each industry in each year and…