Spierdijk, Laura; Voorneveld, Mark - Economics Institute for Research (SIR), … - 2007
regardless of talent and which gives rise to the Yule distribution. We adopt a different empirical approach and test its goodness … distribution captures stardom, but not superstardom. A generalization of the Yule distribution provides an excellent fit in two of … overestimates the snowball effect that makes consumers purchase records of the most successful artists. In other words, the Yule …