Zipf distribution of US firm sizes

被引：938

作者：

Axtell, RL ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] Brookings Inst, Ctr Social & Econ Dynam, Washington, DC 20036 USA

来源：

SCIENCE | 2001年 / 293卷 / 5536期

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D O I：

10.1126/science.1062081

中图分类号：

O [数理科学和化学]; P [天文学、地球科学]; Q [生物科学]; N [自然科学总论];

学科分类号：

07 ; 0710 ; 09 ;

摘要：

Analyses of firm sizes have historically used data that included limited samples of small firms, data typically described by lognormal distributions. Using data on the entire population of tax-paying firms in the United States, I show here that the Zipf distribution characterizes firm sizes: the probability a firm is larger than size s is inversely proportional to s. These results hold for data from multiple years and for various definitions of firm size.

引用

页码：1818 / 1820

页数：3

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