Title of article
The Pareto, Zipf and other power laws
Author/Authors
William J. Reed، نويسنده ,
Issue Information
روزنامه با شماره پیاپی سال 2001
Pages
5
From page
15
To page
19
Abstract
Many empirical size distributions in economics and elsewhere exhibit power-law behaviour in the upper tail. This article contains a simple explanation for this. It also predicts lower-tail power-law behaviour, which is verified empirically for income and city-size data.
Keywords
Tail behaviour , Power law , Gibrat’s Law , Income distribution , City-size distribution
Journal title
Economics Letters
Serial Year
2001
Journal title
Economics Letters
Record number
434837
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