Zipf's Law in Economics

Gerrit de Wit

No N200503, Scales Research Reports from EIM Business and Policy Research

Abstract: Many empirical size distributions in economics and elsewhere follow Zipf?s law. Starting from the Gibrat assumption, it is essential to add a second as-sumption to explain this phenomenon.

Pages: 7 pages
Date: 2005-04-07
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