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Comment author: gwern 18 July 2010 06:40:55AM 0 points [-]

As I recall, Robin also linked to a paper pointing out that very large companies underperform. Family-owned firms tend to not become that large; I wonder if that undoes the going public effect.

Comment author: Larks 18 July 2010 03:30:41PM 0 points [-]

We may be running into problems with the ambiguity of 'outperform'; clearly dis-economies of scale aren't going to allow family run firms to become larger than public ones, for example.