Fujiwara, Yoshi; Guilmi, Corrado Di; Aoyama, Hideaki; … - arXiv.org - 2003
By employing exhaustive lists of large firms in European countries, we show that the upper-tail of the distribution of firm size can be fitted with a power-law (Pareto-Zipf law), and that in this region the growth rate of each firm is independent of the firm's size (Gibrat's law of proportionate...