Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/31748 
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Year of Publication: 
2008
Series/Report no.: 
Jena Economic Research Papers No. 2008,072
Publisher: 
Friedrich Schiller University Jena and Max Planck Institute of Economics, Jena
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.
Subjects: 
Firm size distribution
firm growth
Gibrat's law
Pareto distribution
Zipf Law
JEL: 
L20
L25
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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