The Pareto, Zipf and other power laws

Economics Letters

Volumn 74, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 15-19

  Reed, William J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

C49; City size distribution; D31; Gibrat's law; Income distribution; Power law; R12; Tail behaviour

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035619627     PISSN: 01651765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0165-1765(01)00524-9     Document Type: Article

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