On the size distribution of business firms

Economics Letters

Volumn 98, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 207-212

  Growiec, Jakub ^a   Pammolli, Fabio ^b   Riccaboni, Massimo ^b   Stanley, H Eugene ^c  

^a WARSAW SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (Poland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^c BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Firm size distribution; Gibrat Law; Lognormal distribution; Pareto distribution; Tail behavior

Indexed keywords

EID: 37549018451     PISSN: 01651765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2007.04.031     Document Type: Article

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