Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/27481 
Year of Publication: 
2008
Series/Report no.: 
Economics Discussion Papers No. 2008-45
Publisher: 
Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW), Kiel
Abstract: 
We have shown that firm size signed displacement data follow not only power-law in the large scale region but also the log-normal distribution in the middle scale one. In the analyses, we employ three databases: high-income data, high-sales data and positive-profits data of Japanese firms. It is particularly worth noting that the growth rate distributions of the firm size displacement have no wide tail which is observed in assets, sales of firms, the number of employees and personal income data. An extended-Gibrat's law is also found in the growth rate distributions. This leads the power-law and the log-normal distributions of the firm size displacement under the detailed balance.
Subjects: 
Econophysics
firm size displacement distribution
Pareto's law
log-normal distribution
(non-)Gibrat's law
detailed balance
JEL: 
D31
D30
D39
Creative Commons License: 
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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