Cirillo, Pasquale; Vagliasindi, Pietro A.; Bruno, Giuseppe - In: Giornale degli Economisti 70 (2011) 2, pp. 59-91
Using a large industrial panel, we show that the size distribution of Italian manufacturing firms can be well approximated by a two-parameter generalized Pareto distribution (GPD); the fitting is particularly good for medium-large companies. This evidence seems to hold using different proxies of...