eprintid: 638
rev_number: 10
eprint_status: archive
userid: 2
dir: disk0/00/00/06/38
datestamp: 2011-06-30 14:27:10
lastmod: 2011-08-31 14:40:38
status_changed: 2011-06-30 14:27:10
type: article
metadata_visibility: show
item_issues_count: 0
creators_name: Pammolli, Fabio
creators_name: Growiec, Jakub
creators_name: Riccaboni, Massimo
creators_name: Stanley, H. Eugene
creators_id: f.pammolli@imtlucca.it
creators_id: 
creators_id: massimo.riccaboni@imtlucca.it
creators_id: 
title: On the size distribution of business firms
ispublished: pub
subjects: HB
divisions: EIC
full_text_status: none
keywords: Tail behavior; Firm size distribution; Gibrat Law; Pareto distribution; Lognormal distribution
note: JEL classification codes: L11; L65
abstract:  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.
date: 2008
date_type: published
publication: Economics Letters
volume: 98
number: 2
publisher: Elsevier
pagerange: 207 - 212
id_number: 10.1016/j.econlet.2007.04.031
refereed: TRUE
issn: 0165-1765
official_url: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0165176507001577
citation:   Pammolli, Fabio and Growiec, Jakub and Riccaboni, Massimo and Stanley, H. Eugene  On the size distribution of business firms.  Economics Letters, 98 (2).  207 - 212.  ISSN 0165-1765      (2008)