Chen, Yi-Fan; Hsu, Wen-Tai; Peng, Shin Kun - In: Theoretical economics : TE ; an open access journal in … 18 (2023) 1, pp. 341-380
Power laws in productivity and firm size are well documented empirical regularities. As they are upper right-tail phenomena, this paper shows that assuming asymptotic power functions for various model primitives (such as demand and firm heterogeneity) are sufficient for matching these...