This paper examines the evolution of a skew distribution of firm sizes from the viewpoint of the 'Bounds' approach to market structure. It confines attention to the role played by non-strategic factors (statistical independence, and cost side effects). A model is proposed, which leads to a...

This paper examines the evolution of a skew distribution of firm sizes from the viewpoit of the "Bounds" approach to market structure. It confines attention to the role played by non-strategic factors (statistical independence, and cost side eddects). A model is proposed, which leads toa...