The Pareto, Zipf and other power laws

被引：340

作者：

Reed, WJ ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] Univ Victoria, Dept Math & Stat, Victoria, BC V8W 3P4, Canada

来源：

ECONOMICS LETTERS | 2001年 / 74卷 / 01期

基金：

加拿大自然科学与工程研究理事会;

关键词：

power law; tail behaviour; Gibrat's law; income distribution; city-size distribution;

D O I：

10.1016/S0165-1765(01)00524-9

中图分类号：

F [经济];

学科分类号：

02 ;

摘要：

Many empirical size distributions in economics and elsewhere exhibit power-law behaviour in the upper tail. This article contains a simple explanation for this. It also predicts lower-tail power-law behaviour, which is verified empirically for income and city-size data. (C) 2001 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.

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