Scaling behavior in economics: I Epirical results for company growth

Journal de Physique II

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 621-633

  Amaral, Luis A Nunes ^a,b   Buldyrev, Sergey V ^a   Havlin, Shlomo ^a,c   Leschhorn, Heiko ^a,e   Maass, Philipp ^a,f   Salinger, Michael A ^d   Stanley, H Eugene ^a   Stanley, Michael H R ^a,g  

^a Boston University ^*  (United States)

^b FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

^c BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^d BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

^g MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INDUSTRIAL ECONOMICS; QUANTUM THEORY; RANDOM PROCESSES; STATISTICAL TESTS;

COMPANY GROWTH; COMPUSTAT DATABASE;

STATISTICAL MECHANICS;

EID: 0031121921     PISSN: 11554312     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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