The size variance relationship of business firm growth rates

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 105, Issue 50, 2008, Pages 19595-19600

  Riccaboni, Massimo ^a   Pammolli, Fabio ^b,e   Buldyrev, Sergey V ^c   Ponta, Linda ^d,e   Stanley, H E ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

^b IMT SCHOOL FOR ADVANCED STUDIES LUCCA   (Italy)

^c YESHIVA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d POLITECNICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

^e Boston University   (United States)

Author keywords

Distributions; Pharmaceutical industry; Preferential attachment

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMMERCIAL PHENOMENA; GROWTH RATE; INDUSTRY; PARAMETER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL MODEL; VARIANCE;

EID: 58149486110     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0810478105     Document Type: Article

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