@techreport{Coad2008exponential,
abstract = {Recent work drawing on data for large and small firms has shown a Pareto distribution of firm size. We mix a Gibrat-type growth process among incumbents with an exponential distribution of firm's age, to obtain the empirical Pareto distribution.},
address = {Jena},
author = {Alex Coad},
copyright = {http://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungen},
keywords = {L20; L25; 330; Firm size distribution; firm growth; Gibrat's law; Pareto distribution; Zipf Law; Betriebsgr\"{o}\ss{}enstruktur; Statistische Verteilung; Publikationsanalyse; Unternehmenswachstum; Unternehmensentwicklung; Theorie},
language = {eng},
number = {2008,072},
publisher = {Universit\"{a}t Jena und Max-Planck-Institut f\"{u}r \"{O}konomik},
title = {The exponential age distribution and the Pareto firm size distribution},
type = {Jena economic research papers},
url = {http://hdl.handle.net/10419/31748},
year = {2008}
}
