Size-dependent standard deviation for growth rates: Empirical results and theoretical modeling

Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics

Volumn 77, Issue 5, 2008, Pages

  Podobnik, Boris ^a,b,c   Horvatic, Davor ^d   Pammolli, Fabio ^e   Wang, Fengzhong ^c   Stanley, H Eugene ^c   Grosse, I ^f  

^a University of Rijeka   (Croatia)

^b ZAGREB SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS AND MANAGEMENT   (Croatia)

^c Boston University   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB   (Croatia)

^e UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^f MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGEBRA; ASYMPTOTIC STABILITY; GROWTH RATE; LAPLACE TRANSFORMS; RANDOM PROCESSES;

EXPONENTIAL (LAPLACE) DISTRIBUTIONS; POWER-LAW DEPENDENCE; POWER-LAW DISTRIBUTIONS; SIZE-DEPENDENT STANDARD DEVIATION;

ECONOMIC ANALYSIS;

EID: 43449107680     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.77.056102     Document Type: Article

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