Travail de recherche/Working paper
| Résumé : | We derive exact conditions relating the distributions of firm productivity, sales, out- put, and markups to the form of demand; in particular, for a large family (including Pareto, log-normal, and Fréchet), the distributions of productivity and output are the same if and only if demand is “CREMR” (Constant Revenue Elasticity of Marginal Revenue). Moreover, we use the Kullback-Leibler Divergence to quantify the information loss when a predicted distribution fails to match the actual one; and we find that, to explain the sales distribution, the choice between Pareto and log-normal productivity distributions matters less than the choice between CREMR and other demands. |
