Many empirical researches indicate that firm size distributions in different industries or countries exhibit some similar characters. Among them the fact that many firm size distributions obey power-law especially for the upper end has been mostly discussed. Here we present an agent-based model to d
An analysis of the size distribution of Italian firms by age
β Scribed by Pasquale Cirillo
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 2010
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 543 KB
- Volume
- 389
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0378-4371
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