Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/25788 
Year of Publication: 
2006
Series/Report no.: 
CESifo Working Paper No. 1743
Publisher: 
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo), Munich
Abstract: 
This paper considers the distribution of output and productive factors among members of a fully integrated economy (FIE). We demonstrate that each member's shares of total output and of total factors will be equal. This implies that growth in shares is random. If output and factor shares evolve as reflective geometric Brownian motion, then limiting distribution of these shares will exhibit Zipf's law. Our empirics support Zipf's law for U.S. states and for E.U. countries. These findings imply that models characterizing growth of members within an FIE should embody a key assumption: growth process of shares is random and homogeneous.
JEL: 
E13
F15
F21
F22
O57
Document Type: 
Working Paper
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