We find that the empirical density of firm profit rates, measured as returns on assets, is markedly non-Gaussian and reasonably well described by an exponential power (or Subbotin) distribution. We start from a statistical equilibrium model that leads to a stationary Subbotin density in the...

An analysis of master–slave hierarchy has been made in a system of nonlinear stochastic equations describing fluctuations with a 1/f spectrum at coupled nonequilibrium phase transitions. It is shown that for a system of stochastic equations there exist different probability distribution...