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Energy distribution, power laws, and economic growth

Dalgaard, Carl-Johan; Strulik, Holger - 2008

The natural sciences have established a general scaling law that relates metabolism and body size of animals. Recently … resulting structural model and find evidence in favor of a scaling parameter, between energy and capital per capita, of about 2/3. …

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Chapter 53. The Evolution of City Size Distributions

Gabaix, Xavier; Ioannides, Yannis M. - In: Handbook of regional and urban economics : volume 4, …, (pp. 2341-2378). 2004

We review the accumulated knowledge on city size distributions and determinants of urban growth. This topic is of interest because of a number of key stylized facts, including notably Zipf's law for cities (which states that the number of cities of size greater than S is proportional to 1/ S )...

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Zipf's law and world military expenditures

Arvanitidis, Paschalis A.; Kollias, Chrēstos - In: Peace economics, peace science and public policy 22 (2016) 1, pp. 41-71

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Agricultural financial risks resulting from extreme events

Xouridas, Stergios - In: Journal of agricultural economics 66 (2015) 1, pp. 192-220

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Power laws and skew distributions : an application to performance royalty income

Pitt, Ivan L. - In: Journal of income distribution : an international quarterly 22 (2013) 2, pp. 148-159

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A methodology for actively managing tail risks and uncertainties

Broeders, Dirk; Loman, Herwin; Toor, Joris van - In: Journal of risk management in financial institutions 12 (2018/2019) 1, pp. 44-56

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An empirical re-examination of extreme tail behavior : testing the assumptions of the power laws and the generalized Pareto distribution on the financial series

Liu, Wei-Han - In: Applied economics 51 (2019) 30, pp. 3310-3324

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Spatial pattern and city size distribution (revised)

Mori, Tomoya - 2018

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Time-varying volatility and the power law distribution of stock returns

Warusawitharana, Missaka - In: Journal of empirical finance 49 (2018), pp. 123-141

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Complexity, power laws and a humean argument in risk management : the fundamental inadequacy of probability theory as a foundation for modeling complex risk in banking

Hoffmann, Christian Hugo; Djordjevic, Charles - In: Homo oeconomicus : HOE ; journal of behavioral and … 37 (2020) 3/4, pp. 155-182

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