Amaral, Nunes; A, Luís; Buldyrev, Sergey V; Havlin, Shlomo - In: Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications 244 (1997) 1, pp. 1-24
Inspired by work of both Widom and Mandelbrot, we analyze the Computstat database comprising all publicly traded United States manufacturing companies in the years 1974–1993. We find that the distribution of company size remains stable for the 20 years we study, i.e., the mean value and...
