Zipf Distribution of U.S. Firm Sizes

By Robert L. Axtell. Science, 2001

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Firm Size Distortions and the Productivity Distribution: Evidence from France (2013, neutral): “6See Axtell (2001), Sutton (1997) and Gabaix, (2009).”
Distorted Gravity: The Intensive and Extensive Margins of International Trade (2008, neutral): “Recent evidence on this empirical regularity for the United States include Robert L. Axtell (2001) and Luttmer (2007).”
Structural gravity equations with intensive and extensive margins (2010, neutral): “The distribution of manufacturing firms in developed countries appears to better correspond to a Pareto law in the case of medium-size firms (see for instance Axtell, 2001 and Cabral and Mata, 2003).”
A theory on the role of wholesalers in international trade based on economies of scope (2018, neutral): “Moreover, the Pareto distribution has been found to correspond reasonably well with the real distribution of rm productivity, see Axtell (2001) or Luttmer (2007).”
Product Market Regulation, Firm Selection and Unemployment (2011, neutral): “15We use the estimate in Axtell (2001) for the restricted sample without self-employed workers. it follows that ϕ = ( γ−1 γ ) .”
CEO Pay and Firm Size: an Update after the Crisis (2013, background): “Figure 2 plots the firm size distribution confirming a fat-tailed distribution of firms, consistent with a Zipf’s law for firm size (Simon, 1955; Gabaix, 1999; Axtell, 2001; Luttmer, 2007), here firm size being firm total market value rather than the usual ‘size’ expressed by number of employees.”
Complexity and Empirical Economics (2005, background): “Important examples include Axtell (2001) on firm sizes and Gabaix (1999) on city sizes.”
Cultural Industries: Product–Market Characteristics, Management Challenges and Industry Dynamics (2015, neutral): “Most firms tend to be small independent of industry context (e.g. Axtell 2001).”
Inequality and Unemployment in a Global Economy (2009, positive): “The first-order conditions (8) and ( 9 ) also imply that the measure of workers sampled, n ,t he screening ability cutoff, ac, the measure of workers hired, h, total output, y ,a nd wages,w ,c an”
Why Has CEO Pay Increased so Much (2008, neutral): “See section III and Axtell (2001), Luttmer (2005) and Gabaix (1999, 2006) for evidence and theory on Zipf’s law for firms.”