Bottazzi, Giulio; Li, Le; Secchi, Angelo - 2017 - Present version - September 25, 2017
We propose an aggregate growth index that explicitly accounts for non-normality in the micro-economic distribution of … firm growth rates and for the presence of a negative scaling relation between their volatility and the size of the firm … two parts, describing respectively the modal (typical) value of growth rates and the tilt (asymmetry) of their …