Theory of Zipf's Law and Beyond

• Main Authors: Saichev, Alex (Author), Malevergne, Yannick (Author), Sornette, Didier (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2010.
• Series: Lecture Notes in Economics and Mathematical Systems, 632
• Subjects: 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...