Fiaschi, Davide; Kondor, Imre; Marsili, Matteo - Dipartimento di Economia e Management, Università … - 2013
Using public data (Forbes Global 2000) we show that the distribution of asset sizes for the largest global firms follows a Pareto distribution in an intermediate range that is “interrupted” by a sharp cutoff in its upper tail, which is totally dominated by financial firms. This contrasts...