TY - JOUR KW - Tail behavior; Firm size distribution; Gibrat Law; Pareto distribution; Lognormal distribution VL - 98 Y1 - 2008/// UR - http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0165176507001577 A1 - Pammolli, Fabio A1 - Growiec, Jakub A1 - Riccaboni, Massimo A1 - Stanley, H. Eugene SP - 207 TI - On the size distribution of business firms AV - none N1 - JEL classification codes: L11; L65 IS - 2 PB - Elsevier JF - Economics Letters N2 - 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. EP - 212 ID - eprints638 SN - 0165-1765 ER -