Fujimoto, S.; Ishikawa, A.; Mizuno, T.; Watanabe, T. - Center for Interfirm Network, Institute of Economic Research - 2011
We propose a new method for estimating the power-law exponents of firm size variables. Our focus is on how to …-law exponent using observations only in the range defined by the two thresholds. We apply this new method to various firm size … variables, including annual sales, the number of workers, and tangible fixed assets for firms in more than thirty countries. …