Theory of Zipf's Law and Beyond

• Κύριοι συγγραφείς: Saichev, Alex (Συγγραφέας), Malevergne, Yannick (Συγγραφέας), Sornette, Didier (Συγγραφέας)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2010.
• Σειρά: Lecture Notes in Economics and Mathematical Systems, 632
• Θέματα: Probabilities.; Economic theory.; Macroeconomics.; Economics.; Macroeconomics/Monetary Economics//Financial Economics.; Probability Theory and Stochastic Processes.; Economic Theory/Quantitative Economics/Mathematical Methods.

Zipf's law is one of the few quantitative reproducible regularities found in economics. It states that, for most countries, the size distributions of city sizes and of firms are power laws with a specific exponent: the number of cities and of firms with sizes greater than S is inversely proport...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Continuous Gibrat#x2019;s Law and Gabaix#x2019;s Derivation of Zipf#x2019;s Law
• Flow of Firm Creation
• Useful Properties of Realizations of the Geometric Brownian Motion
• Exit or #x201C;Death#x201D; of Firms
• Deviations from Gibrat#x2019;s Law and Implications for Generalized Zipf#x2019;s Laws
• Firm#x2019;s Sudden Deaths
• Non-stationary Mean Birth Rate
• Properties of the Realization Dependent Distribution of Firm Sizes
• Future Directions and Conclusions.