Brueckner, M.2011-10-182011-10-182010Economics Letters, 2010; 107(1):63-650165-1765http://hdl.handle.net/2440/66855I use a panel of large European firms for the period 1999–2007 to study scale dependence in firm dynamics. I find that scale dependence is much more pronounced when focusing on within-firm rather than between-firm variation and that scale dependence is a decreasing function of financial development.enCopyright © 2011 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.Financial developmentFirm dynamicsJournal article002011131310.1016/j.econlet.2009.12.0272-s2.0-7724916971428372