%0 Journal Article
%@ 0165-1765
%A Pammolli, Fabio
%A Growiec, Jakub
%A Riccaboni, Massimo
%A Stanley, H. Eugene
%D 2008
%F eprints:638
%I Elsevier
%J Economics Letters
%K Tail behavior; Firm size distribution; Gibrat Law; Pareto distribution; Lognormal distribution
%N 2
%P 207 - 212
%T On the size distribution of business firms
%U http://eprints.imtlucca.it/638/
%V 98
%X  The size distribution of business firms is explained using number and size of firms' constituent components. It is a lognormal distribution multiplied by a stretching factor which can lead to a Pareto upper tail. This result is confirmed empirically.
%Z JEL classification codes: L11; L65