Gaffeo, Edoardo; Guilmi, Corrado di; Gallegati, Mauro; … - Dipartimento di Economia e Management, Università … - 2008
In this paper we make use of firm-level data for a sample of European countries to prove the existence of a positive linear relationship between the mean and the variance of firms’ size, an empirical regularity known in mathematical biology as the Taylor power law. A computerized experiment is...