Company size distribution for developing countries

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications

Volumn 359, Issue 1-4, 2006, Pages 607-618

  Hernandez Perez R ^a,b   Angulo Brown, F ^a   Tun, Dionisio ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTO POLITÉCNICO NACIONAL   (Mexico)

^b DEPARTAMENTO DE QUÍMICA   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Company size; Econophysics; Power law; Zipf law

Indexed keywords

COMPANY SIZE; ECONOPHYSICS; POWER-LAW; ZIPF LAW;

DATA REDUCTION; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION;

INDUSTRIAL ECONOMICS;

EID: 27344438150     PISSN: 03784371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2005.04.027     Document Type: Article

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