Zipf law and the firm size distribution: a critical discussion of popular estimators
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Zipf Law and the Firm Size Distribution: a critical discussion of popular estimators
The upper tail of the firm size distribution is often assumed to follow a Power Law behavior. Recently, using different estimators and on different data sets, several papers conclude that this distribution follows the Zipf Law, that is that the fraction of firms whose size is above a given value is inversely proportional to the value itself. We compare the different methods through which this c...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Evolutionary Economics
سال: 2015
ISSN: 0936-9937,1432-1386
DOI: 10.1007/s00191-015-0395-7