<> "The repository administrator has not yet configured an RDF license."^^ . <> . . . "A generalized preferential attachment model for business firms growth rates: I. Empirical evidence"^^ . "We introduce a model of proportional growth to explain the distribution P(g) of business firm growth rates. The model predicts that P(g) is Laplace in the central part and depicts an asymptotic power-law behavior in the tails with an exponent ζ = 3. Because of data limitations, previous studies in this field have been focusing exclusively on the Laplace shape of the body of the distribution. We test the model at different levels of aggregation in the economy, from products, to firms, to countries, and we find that the predictions are in good agreement with empirical evidence on both growth distributions and size-variance relationships. "^^ . "2007" . "57" . "2" . . "Springer"^^ . . . "The European Physical Journal B"^^ . . . "14346028" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "Fabio"^^ . "Pammolli"^^ . "Fabio Pammolli"^^ . . "H. Eugene"^^ . "Stanley"^^ . "H. Eugene Stanley"^^ . . "Sergey V."^^ . "Buldyrev"^^ . "Sergey V. Buldyrev"^^ . . "Dongfeng"^^ . "Fu"^^ . "Dongfeng Fu"^^ . . "Massimo"^^ . "Riccaboni"^^ . "Massimo Riccaboni"^^ . . "Kazuko"^^ . "Yamasaki"^^ . "Kazuko Yamasaki"^^ . . "Kaushik"^^ . "Matia"^^ . "Kaushik Matia"^^ . . . . . "HTML Summary of #647 \n\nA generalized preferential attachment model for business firms growth rates: I. Empirical evidence\n\n" . "text/html" . . . "HB Economic Theory"@en . . . "HG Finance"@en . . . "QC Physics"@en . .