Zipf and the size distribution of firms

(1997) Zipf and the size distribution of firms Applied Economics Letters, 4 (4). pp. 205-206. ISSN 1350-4851

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Based on a sample of 50 441 independent UK companies of all sizes covering all sectors of the UK economy, the size distribution of companies is close to lognormal, even though the hypothesis of lognormality can be rejected statistically. A Zipf plot shows that the Pareto distribution is a poor fit to the upper 5% tail.

Item Type	Article
Departments	Centre for Macroeconomics
DOI	10.1080/758518494
Date Deposited	11 Dec 2020 15:27
URI	https://researchonline.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/107895

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