Hart, Peter E. and Oulton, Nicholas ORCID: 0000-0002-1595-7732
(1997)
Zipf and the size distribution of firms.
Applied Economics Letters, 4 (4).
pp. 205-206.
ISSN 1350-4851
Identification Number: 10.1080/758518494
Abstract
Based on a sample of 50 441 independent UK companies of all sizes covering all sectors of the UK economy, the size distribution of companies is close to lognormal, even though the hypothesis of lognormality can be rejected statistically. A Zipf plot shows that the Pareto distribution is a poor fit to the upper 5% tail.
Item Type: | Article |
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Official URL: | https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rael20/current |
Additional Information: | © 1997 Taylor & Francis |
Divisions: | Centre for Macroeconomics |
Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor H Social Sciences > HB Economic Theory |
Date Deposited: | 11 Dec 2020 15:27 |
Last Modified: | 16 May 2024 03:15 |
URI: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/107895 |
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