On the upper tail of Italian firms’ size distribution

Pasquale Cirillo and Jürg Hüsler

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 2009, vol. 388, issue 8, 1546-1554

Abstract: In this paper we analyze the upper tail of the size distribution of Italian companies with limited liability belonging to the CEBI database. Size is defined in terms of net worth.

Keywords: Power law; Scaling law; Pareto law; Shape parameter; Firms’ size distribution; Goodness-of-fit tests; Extreme value theory (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009
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DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2008.12.070

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