Business cycle fluctuations and firms' size distribution dynamics

Advances in Complex Systems

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 223-240

  Delli Gatti, Domenico ^a   Di Guilmi, Corrado ^b   Gaffeo, Edoardo ^c   Giulioni, Gianfranco ^b   Gallegati, Mauro ^b   Palestrini, Antonio ^d  

^a UNIVERSITÀ CATTOLICA DEL SACRO CUORE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITÀ POLITECNICA DELLE MARCHE   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TERAMO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Business cycle; Firms' size distribution; Power law

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LARGE SCALE SYSTEMS; OSCILLATIONS; PROBABILITY; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS;

BUSINESS CYCLE; ECONOMIC DISTRIBUTIONS; POWER LAW; SELF-ORGANIZED CRITICALITY (SOC);

ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS;

EID: 11144229432     PISSN: 02195259     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0219525904000160     Document Type: Review

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