Theory of Zipf's Law and Beyond
Zipf's law is one of the few quantitative reproducible regularities found in economics. It states that, for most countries, the size distributions of city sizes and of firms are power laws with a specific exponent: the number of cities and of firms with sizes greater than S is inversely proport...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berlin, Heidelberg :
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
2010.
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| Colección: | Lecture Notes in Economics and Mathematical Systems,
632. Springer eBooks. |
| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b36246037*spi |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Continuous Gibrat#x2019;s Law and Gabaix#x2019;s Derivation of Zipf#x2019;s Law
- Flow of Firm Creation
- Useful Properties of Realizations of the Geometric Brownian Motion
- Exit or #x201C;Death#x201D; of Firms
- Deviations from Gibrat#x2019;s Law and Implications for Generalized Zipf#x2019;s Laws
- Firm#x2019;s Sudden Deaths
- Non-stationary Mean Birth Rate
- Properties of the Realization Dependent Distribution of Firm Sizes
- Future Directions and Conclusions.
